Quotes by Omnipotence Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. J. William Fulbright omnipotencevirtue Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? Jack McDevitt omnipotencedeitiesculture If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabre omnipotencechristianreligion Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man. James Dobson omnipotencementhinking The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. James L. Brooks omnipotencefeelingswriting Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. Jean Baudrillard omnipotencedatatechnology If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable. Jo Walton omnipotenceineffabledamn What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe omnipotencepowerfulgod For granting we have sinned, and that the offence John Dryden omnipotencebearsmen The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation. John Quincy Adams omnipotencemenfall Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion. John Milton omnipotence The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth. John Ruskin omnipotencemindheaven Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... Conversion is a supernatural work. Joseph Alleine omnipotencementhinking Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. Joyce Carol Oates omnipotencechildhooddream Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. Joseph Addison omnipotenceperfectionjustice What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But only in an isolated, insignificant manner, through feeble attempts. Do it in a grand manner from all aspects with unified efforts, and let us awaken all religions from their graves, newly revivify and form the immortal ones through the omnipotence of art and science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel omnipotenceeffortart Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence. L. Tom Perry omnipotencespiritualinspirational As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence. Louise J. Kaplan omnipotencecirclesmother Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. Mahatma Gandhi omnipotencemonstersbelieve Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene. Mark Batterson impossible-situationsomnipotenceprayer«12345»
