Quotes about Power
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
- Samuel Johnson
Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.
- Aristotle
Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
- Vance Havner
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
- TB Joshua
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
- Seneca
The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.
- Shane Claiborne
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
- Shane Claiborne
We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He
- Shane Claiborne
So there goes Jesus spinning power on its head again. His power was not in crushing but in being crushed, triumphing over the empire's sword with his cross. Mustard must be crushed, ground, broken for its power to be released.
- Shane Claiborne
The great paradox and humor of God's audacious power: a stuttering prophet will be the voice of God, a barren old lady will become the mother of a nation, a shepherd boy will become their king, and a homeless baby will lead them home.:
- Shane Claiborne
that few things have more transformative power than people and stories. People
- Shane Claiborne