Quotes by Powerful The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we'll be blessed with cursings. However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good. Adrian Rogers powerful blessed believe In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the Adrienne Rich powerful secret lying This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state. Adyashanti powerful dream inspiring The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and it's one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through - to accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, "I am this." Every time you claim, "I am this", you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling. Adyashanti powerful spiritual letting-go Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating ... When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention. Adyashanti powerful real heart True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness. Adyashanti powerful mind order In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. Aesop powerful life needs Example is more powerful than precept. Aesop powerful example The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know. Aga Khan IV motivation powerful humans If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress. Aga Khan IV generosity progress powerful One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi'I, "My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me." Agapi Stassinopoulos powerful knowing heart When there is spirit and light, the dark forces of whatever is hidden and suppressed - like hatred and separation - become more powerful. Agapi Stassinopoulos powerful light dark My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision. Ahmet Ertegun powerful men father Maybe being powerful means to be fragile. Ai Weiwei recovery powerful mean Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country. Ai Weiwei powerful heart country You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them. Ai Weiwei powerful people looks How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. We are not on - even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding. Ai Weiwei technology powerful understanding In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible. Ai Weiwei protection environment powerful I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think a dish of sand is a good metaphor because we have the Internet. We don't have to be physically united. You can be an individual and have your own set of values but join others in certain struggles. There is nothing more powerful than that. Ai Weiwei powerful struggle thinking The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book. 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