Quotes about Power
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
— Charles Spurgeon
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
— Malcolm X
I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
— Mario Puzo
Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)
— Charles Swindoll
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
— Jimmy Carter
Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
— Joel Osteen
Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
— CS Lewis
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.
— Barack Obama
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
— Calvin Coolidge
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
— Edmund Burke