Quotes about Power
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.
— Pope Benedict XVI
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
— John Calvin
We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.
— AW Tozer
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
— Michael Novak
You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.
— Charles Spurgeon
When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.
— Martin Luther
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.
— Charles Stanley
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
— Corrie Ten Boom
I would rather obey than work miracles.
— Martin Luther
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
— John Owen
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
— Alveda King