Quotes about Power

Hardening can never be broken by man in his own power. There is no other therapy that can bring about a change except the divine healing in Christ and the superior power of the Spirit.

The grace of God is never the cause for glorying in one's own power ... Perseverance is always opposed to false self-confidence.

We stand, as did the men of old, in the valley, and ask the same question as they: "Watchman, what of the night?" Men of God upon the heights of vision, seers of the present day, looking out upon the great horizon, send back to us the old answer, "The morning cometh; the night also." The signs of the times are such as reveal the power of spirituality, side by side with the development of evil; but, thank God, beyond the night that comes is the larger day and gladder age for man.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Don't pass over this thought, because it's crucial: Isaiah 40:29 assumes that God will call us to various tasks for which we lack enough power on our own.

Imagine the power of reading a psalm at age eighty that you read daily in your thirties. Rituals can tie our years together.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

One man with God is a majority.

Don't bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.