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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, America, Independence

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• I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

  Samuel Chase

  Legislature, States, State Legislatures

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• Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

  Sam Vaknin

  Hate, Narcissism, Narcissist

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.714, Narcissus Publishing

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• Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... Conversion is a supernatural work.

  Joseph Alleine

  Men, Thinking, Despair

  "Alarm to the Unconverted".

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• For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Europe, Competition, Mind

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• God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Loss, Joy, Understanding

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• Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.

  Pope Pius XII

  Christian, Fashion, Law

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• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Wall, Sea

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• And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Independent, Decision

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Can we accept the unexplained, the loss,
  The crushing agony, and hold us still.
  And nowhere is that clearer vision given
  Which pierces a bewildering providence,
  And opens windows upon highest heaven,
  But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.

  Amy Carmichael

  Crush, Loss, Agony

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.432, CLC Publications

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• God divides the stillness of His omnipresent Oneness into mated pairs, and simultaneously multiplies their power to simulate His omnipotence and omniscience through fast centripetal motion. He then unites His mated pairs to simulate His Oneness, and simultaneously multiplies their speed of centrifugal motion until they disappear into His omnipresent stillness.

  Walter Russell

  Oneness, Balance, Pairs

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• You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a man who prays and his strength and his power cannot by exaggerated. Just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotence.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1922). “The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage”

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• To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.

  Gerald Holton

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Science

  Gerald James Holton (1986). “The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.183, CUP Archive

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• Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

  L. Tom Perry

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Choices

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• Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Losing, Lost

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• The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

  James L. Brooks

  Writing, Feelings, Flash

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• Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

  Pierre Corneille

  Power

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• Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sunshine, Greatness, Men

  "Selections from Carlyle".

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• The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Fall, Men, Issues

  John Quincy Adams (1876). “Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848”, p.63

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• A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around him thrown? With what a gloom the ush’ring scene appears! The leaves all shiv’ring with instinctive fears, The waters curling with a fellow dread, A veiling fervour round creation spread, And, last, the heavy rain’s reluctant shower, With big drops patt’ring on the tree and bower, While wizard shapes the bowing sky deform,— All mark the coming of the thunder-storm!

  Robert Montgomery

  Rain, Sky, Weather

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• To the infinite, all finites are equal.

  Mark Batterson

  Infinite, Equal

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.37, Multnomah

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• Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

  John Milton

  John Milton (1826). “Protestant Union: A Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration, and what Best Means May be Used Against the Spread of Popery ; to which is Prefixed a Preface on Milton's Religious Principals, and Unimpeachable Sincerity”, p.49

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• Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Mixtures, Definitions, Architecture

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• If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cosmic, Ifs

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break.

  Sullivan Ballou

  Love, Break, Cables

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