My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.
The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture. . . I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.
Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.
Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.
The thing that keeps the thoughts coming back is the power that you put in the thought that you can't think of it.
It is true that there is nothing too great for God's power; and it is just as true that there is nothing too small for His love.
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state. ' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
Freedom exists only with power.
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters.
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.
That's what I want to see, and that's what Trump is calling for, to take the power back from Washington, D. C.
If you live for the highest goal, you are living a life of the spirit-whether or not you consider yourself to be on a spiritual path. If you consciously notice the larger aspects of life, always consider whether what you are doing coincides with these aspects, never forget the times when you were enlivened by the power of the highest goal, use those memories in new situations, and act with the knowledge of the support you have and the journey you are on-you will be living for the highest goal.
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.