Quotes about Power

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

Really is—in all His power, majesty, wisdom, glory, and honor. He is the King of kings. If He commands it, so shall it be! The more you realize this, the more you'll have faith like the centurion's—trust that honors God and brings Him joy. Jesus, I trust what You say! You are worthy of all my love, devotion, and respect. Amen! My hope is in Jesus because He is worthy of my trust.

Prayer is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people's needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

The only thing that can bring unfailing joy to the soul is to understand and know God. Everything depends on what He is. He has created us and put us in our present environment, and we are absolutely in His power.

Almightiness consists much less in that which human beings imagine it to be, namely, changing things in accordance with one's own will—Jesus proved, through his miracles, that he could do that, too—than in exerting an influence on the freedom of human hearts without overpowering them. Enticing forth from them, through the mysterious power of grace, their free assent to the truly good.

God "has placed in all intellectual beings, as their hidden but primary power, the potentiality of knowing him; ever a generous Lord, he has planted in us lowly men, as part of our nature, the longing and desire for him

God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love'.

Bad things do happen to good people in this world, but it is not God who wills it. God would like people to get what they deserve in life, but He cannot always arrange it. Forced to choose between a good God who is not totally powerful, or a powerful God who is not totally good, the author of the Book of Job chooses to believe in God's goodness.