Quotes about Omnipotence

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Votes: 5

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear. Votes: 3

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. Votes: 3

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge. Votes: 3

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. Votes: 3

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. Votes: 3

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord. Votes: 3

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. Votes: 3

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence. Votes: 3

[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break... Votes: 3

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. Votes: 3

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God . Votes: 3

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. Votes: 3

For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be paid, And infinite with infinite be weighed. Votes: 3

Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth. Votes: 3

Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man. Votes: 3

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better. Votes: 3

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God. Votes: 2

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. Votes: 2

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Votes: 2

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind? Votes: 2

The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts. Votes: 2

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. Votes: 2

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. Votes: 2

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. Votes: 2

Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended. Votes: 2

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist. Votes: 2

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth. Votes: 2

[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world. Votes: 2

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. Votes: 2

It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home. Votes: 2

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. Votes: 2

I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them. Votes: 2

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. Votes: 1

The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist. Votes: 1

In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species. Votes: 1

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt. Votes: 1

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature. Votes: 0

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence. Votes: 0

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. Votes: 0

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. Votes: 0

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. Votes: 0

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. Votes: 0

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. Votes: 0

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence. Votes: 0

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. Votes: 0

Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair. Votes: 0

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared. Votes: 0

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it? Votes: 0

God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy. Votes: 0

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will. Votes: 0

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence! Votes: 0

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. Votes: 0

Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids. Votes: 0

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor. Votes: 0

God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures. Votes: 0

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind. Votes: 0

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts. Votes: 0

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god. Votes: 0

If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives? Votes: 0

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. Votes: 0

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity. Votes: 0

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind. Votes: 0

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil. Votes: 0

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people. Votes: 0

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might. Votes: 0

Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves. Votes: 0