Quotes about Power

When we consider some of the evil tyrants and dictators that have reigned, as well as some of the weak and foolish men who have held high office, even in this century, we are amazed to learn that they have ruled in the sovereign will of God. But that is what Scripture tells us.

Yet God controls the king's heart. The stubborn will of the most powerful monarch on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals.

Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of.

God not only created the universe but that He upholds and sustains it day by day, hour by hour.

We cannot deal with the power of sin unless we have first dealt with its guilt. And we deal with it at the cross.

The so-called sovereign nations of the world are not truly sovereign. They are nothing more than instruments in the hand of God to accomplish His will:

John Owen said, "When [indwelling sin] is least felt, it is in fact most powerful."[2]

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run.

I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.

Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.