Quotes about Power

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

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.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

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.

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.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

The power of self-interest is still present in the believer

But the service Jesus rendered for us in his life, death, and resurrection is not just for forgiveness of sins or a future in heaven; it is also for the daily power to change in the present. We are not just promised life after death, but life before death! You can remember this as you face the realities of life in a broken world.

Words can be powerful or they can be cheap. What makes words powerful is the action that flows from them. Theology also can be powerful or cheap. What makes right thinking about God powerful is the life that emerges daily from that theology.