Quotes about Power
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
- Oswald Chambers
The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?
- RC Sproul
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.
- Robin Sharma
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
- Samuel Johnson
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
- Samuel Johnson