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Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10—20).
— Priscilla Shirer
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.
— DH Lawrence
he can make every word he speaks draw blood
— Walt Whitman
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.
— Dallas Willard
Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding.
— Milan Kundera
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
— John Milton
Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.
— Christian Horner
But the danger is obvious: those who take this approach more often than not end up denying the potency of the Sermon and sometimes simply turn elsewhere—to Galatians and Romans and Ephesians—for their Christian ethical instruction. What many such readings of the Sermon really want is Paul, and since they can't find Paul in the Sermon, they reinterpret the Sermon and give us Paul instead.
— Scot McKnight
It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover.
— Graham Greene
Words are the verbal embodiment of power.
— Robin Sharma