Quotes about Power

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history.

Only in the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ has death been drawn into God's power, and it must now serve God's own aims. It is not some fatalistic surrender but rather a living faith in Jesus Christ, who died and rose for us, that is able to cope profoundly with death.

That with God, all things are possible.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Bonhoeffer's experiences with African American community underscored an idea that was developing in his mind: the only real piety and power that he had seen in the American church seemed to be in the churches where there were a present reality and a past history of suffering.

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Power has only one duty--to secure the social welfare of the people.