Quotes about Power

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:

Unfast'ns: on a sudden op'n flie With impetuous recoile and jarring sound Th' infernal dores, and on thir hinges great Harsh Thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She op'nd, but to shut Excel'd her power; the Gates wide op'n

Doctrin which we would know whence learnt: who saw   When this creation was? rememberst thou   Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being?   We know no time when we were not as now;   Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd   By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course   Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature   Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.

For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.

but to create Is greater than created to destroy.

Mustering their rage, and Heaven resembles Hell! As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please?

Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid What shall be right: farthest from him is best

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope--and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances[....]

The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.