Quotes about Power
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.
- William Seymour
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
- Seneca
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
- Desmond Tutu
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
- John Owen
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
- Jim Elliot
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
- John Piper
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
- Julian Casablancas
Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.
- Eric Metaxas
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
- James Buchanan
God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us.
- Charles Swindoll
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
- CS Lewis
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
- John Adams