Quotes about Power

what kept coming back to me was that one word gift. Receiving, and then passing it along. Opening up to power and force and energy way beyond me, letting it move through me.

I won't have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, 'Now settle down and do a long work, since you have shown the public that you can produce beautiful short poetry.' And their implication tells me that making two verses or a short poem does not satisfy their concept of what an accomplished poet should be able to do. Bulk they want, as evidence of a man's power.

Spare me the setting of my fate to music.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.

Because words unsaid can change a course as surely as words said.

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.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

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!

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.