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source: Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.203, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Opportunity, Omnipotence, Silence

But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Law, Omnipotence, Hands, Inattention

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Life, Omnipotence, Alive

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Death, Wine, Omnipotence, Fear No One, Wine And Life

The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.

- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

source: "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.

topic: Love, Omnipotence, Justice

Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.

- Hildegard of Bingen

topic: God, Omnipotence, Circles, Omniscience

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

- J. William Fulbright

topic: Omnipotence, Virtue

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

topic: Omnipotence, Religion, Atheism

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

topic: Men, Thinking, Omnipotence, Amoeba

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

topic: Writing, Omnipotence, Feelings, Inadequacy

For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed.

- John Dryden

topic: Men, Omnipotence, Bears

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

- John Milton

topic: Omnipotence

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

- John of Kronstadt

topic: Forgiveness, Omnipotence, Wickedness, Orthodox Christian, Infirmity

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

topic: Fall, Men, 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

topic: Omnipotence, Heaven, Mind, Lifting

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

topic: Omnipotence, Justice, Perfection, Omniscience

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... This is a supernatural work.

- Joseph Alleine

source: "Alarm to the Unconverted".

topic: Men, Thinking, Omnipotence, Conversion

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

- L. Tom Perry

topic: Spiritual, Omnipotence, Choices, Limited Knowledge, Power Of Knowledge

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

topic: Believe, Omnipotence, Monsters, Attribution, Rationalism

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

- Matthew Henry

topic: Omnipotence, Temptation, Might

For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.

- Mikhail Bakunin

topic: Europe, Omnipotence, Competition, Educated Person

O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.

- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

topic: Prayer, Omnipotence, Knowing

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: Omnipotence, Definitions, Mixtures, Utopian

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Omnipotence, Mind, Omniscience, Omniscient

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Omnipotence, Giving, Riches, Eucharist

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

- Sam Vaknin

source: Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.714, Narcissus Publishing

topic: Hate, Omnipotence, Narcissist

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

- Samuel Chase

topic: Omnipotence, Legislature, States, State Legislatures

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

- Samuel Rutherford

topic: Sleep, Omnipotence, Bed, No Sleep

[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break...

- Sullivan Ballou

topic: Love, Omnipotence, Break, Deathless

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Fall, Omnipotence, Contradiction

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

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 273, 1895.

topic: Omnipotence, Fire, Lamps

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

topic: Responsibility, Men, Omnipotence, Unreachable

Now let us regard the idea of God from the magic standpoint, according to the four elements, the so-called tetragrammaton, the unspeakable, the supreme: the fiery principle involves the almightiness and the omnipotence, the airy principle owns the wisdom, purity and clarity, from which aspect proceeds the universal lawfulness. Love and eternal life are attributed to the watery principle, and omnipresence, immortality and consequently eternity belong to the earth principle. These four aspects together represent the supreme Godhead.

- Franz Bardon

topic: Omnipotence, Four Elements, Ideas, Standpoint, Lawfulness

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: Omnipotence, Meditation, Mind, Omniscience

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

source: Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

topic: Technology, Data, Omnipotence, Retrospective, New Vision

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works”, p.726

topic: Change, Science, Omnipotence

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Men, Order, Omnipotence

The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority.... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Kings, Omnipotence, America

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

- Sydney J. Harris

source: Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

topic: Children, Independent, Omnipotence, Parent Child Relationship

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Power, Omnipotence

Can we accept the unexplained, the loss, The crushing agony, and hold us still. And nowhere is that clearer vision given Which pierces a bewildering providence, And opens windows upon highest heaven, But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.

- Amy Carmichael

source: Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.432, CLC Publications

topic: Crush, Loss, Omnipotence, Unexplained

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

- Terryl L. Givens

topic: Loss, Omnipotence, Joy

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

topic: God, Powerful, Omnipotence, Predestination

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

- Andre Breton

topic: Dream, Omnipotence, Play, Surrealism

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Men, Omnipotence, Ideas, Short Sighted

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

source: Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.309

topic: Men, Omnipotence, Evil

The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence - but that is not likely to happen as long as I remain engaged in the financial markets, because they constantly remind me of my limitations.

- George Soros

source: George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.363, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Hurt, Omnipotence, Long

I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

- Dante Alighieri

source: Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

topic: Omnipotence, Cities, Justice, Forsaken

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Patriotic, Omnipotence, Losing

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

- Mark Batterson

source: Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.37, Multnomah

topic: Omnipotence, Infinite, Equal

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

- Anselm of Canterbury

topic: God, Omnipotence, Lord, Lord God

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Omnipotence, Judging, Holiness

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

- Dejan Stojanovic

source: "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "A Deceit," (p. 29), 1999.

topic: Omnipotence, Ends, Omniscience

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

topic: Omnipotence, Differences, Choices

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

source: Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Pride, Order, Omnipotence, Order In The Universe

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

topic: Spiritual, Jesus, Omnipotence, Stranded

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

- Victor Hugo

source: "Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs ..., Volume 1". Book by Iam A. Freeman, p. 520, March 26, 2014.

topic: Omnipotence, Evil, Effort

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Responsibility, Omnipotence, America, World Power

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

- Joyce Carol Oates

topic: Dream, Omnipotence, Childhood

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

topic: Happiness, Men, Omnipotence, Omniscience

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

topic: Omnipotence, Oneness, Balance, Omniscience, Simulate

When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.185, Psychology Press

topic: Believe, Years, Omnipotence, Omniscience

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

topic: Nice, Omnipotence, People

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Omnipotence, Appreciate

How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Children, Law, Omnipotence, Reverence For Life

[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

topic: War, Men, Omnipotence, Cold War

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

topic: Art, Omnipotence, Effort, Unified

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Omnipotence, Evil, Goodness

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

source: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.341, Springer

topic: Eye, Compassion, Omnipotence

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

source: Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.100, Penguin

topic: Omnipotence, Culture, Deities

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Omnipotence, Miracle

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Omnipotence, Cosmic, Ifs

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Passion, Omnipotence, Giving, Grief Observed

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

- Eric Hoffer

source: Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.8, Harper Collins

topic: Men, Omnipotence, Cities, Progressivism

Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

- Sigmund Freud

source: Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence, Omniscience

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

- Slavoj Žižek

topic: Men, Thinking, Omnipotence, Purposelessness

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