My power will be in humility.
Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.
The powers of nature are so great, and our power is so inept. So,in order to cope with the incredible anxiety that human self-consciousness produced, I think we created God in our own image, and then portrayed this God as having supernatural power that we didn't have.
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
The power of love and caring can change the world.
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
Understand the power of asking.
No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.
Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.