Quotes about Powerless
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
— John Bunyan
There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
— Isaiah 19:15
Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for "pie in the sky.
— James H. Cone
All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.
— Herman Bavinck
Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
— Jeremiah 10:11
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.
— John Piper
Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching.
— Billy Graham
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
— Job 21:18
Without me you can do nothing.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
— Romans 6:6
For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
— Romans 8:3
So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.
— Daniel 10:8