Quotes about Power

Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought rather utterly to defy than to obey them whenever they are so restive and wish to spoil God of his rights, and, as it were, to seize upon his throne and draw him down from heaven.

We shall find that the reason why   we doubt of God's promises is, because we sinfully detract from his   power.

In discussing the subject of free will, the question is not, whether external obstacles will permit a man to execute what he has internally resolved, but whether, in any matter whatever, he has a free power of judging and of willing.

The poor man yields to the rich, the plebeian to the noble, the servant to the master, the unlearned to the learned, and yet every one inwardly cherishes some idea of his own superiority.

God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.