Quotes about Power

You either run with lions or walk with sheep.

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

The question stands and waits, to be asked and asked, never finally to be answered, which he believes affirms a kind of faith. The world is fitted together, is held in its place in the great sky, has held together so far, through the worst of human damage so far, and by no human's power to save or make or know. That he can sometimes fit a mere poem's parts together is his fallback position, a sign of his limits, his formal ignorance, his faith in the great coherence.

Having paid for life, we receive death. By now, in this nineteen hundred and eighty-sixth Year of Our Lord, we all have purchased how many shares in death? How many bombs, shells, mines, guns, grenades, poisons, anonymous murders, nameless sufferings, official secrets? But not the controlling share. Death cannot be marketed in controlling shares.

Though we invite, this healing comes in answer to another voice than ours; a strength not ours returns