Quotes by Omnipotence The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. Therese of Lisieux omnipotencemenideas Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God. Thomas Aquinas omnipotencecontradictionfall The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp. Thomas Guthrie omnipotenceatomsfire One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor. Thomas Carlyle omnipotenceevilmen I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist? Umberto Eco omnipotencedifferenceschoices A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride. Umberto Eco omnipotenceprideorder Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence! Vance Havner omnipotencespiritualjesus The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. Victor Hugo omnipotenceeffortevil Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience. Walter Russell omnipotencehappinessmen God divides the stillness of His omnipresent Oneness into mated pairs, and simultaneously multiplies their power to simulate His omnipotence and omniscience through fast centripetal motion. He then unites His mated pairs to simulate His Oneness, and simultaneously multiplies their speed of centrifugal motion until they disappear into His omnipresent stillness. Walter Russell omnipotenceonenessbalance God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart omnipotenceeyecompassion It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security. Zora Neale Hurston omnipotenceresponsibilitymen«12345
