Quotes about Power
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.
- Thomas Monson
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Andrew Jackson
The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.
- Erwin McManus
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
- Frank Herbert
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.
- JI Packer
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
- Paul David Tripp
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
- Peter Drucker
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
- Robert Frost
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.
- George H. W. Bush
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
- St. John Chrysostom