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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Power'

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I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.
Kevin Bacon, American Actor (1958-  )
In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
John Badham, British Director (1939-  )
Threats without power are like powder without ball.
Nathan Bailey, English Writer
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Fredrik Bajer, Danish Writer (1837-1922)
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
Ray Stannard Baker, American Journalist (1870-1946)
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker, American Journalist (1925-  )
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker, American Novelist (1957-  )
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James A. Baldwin, American Author (1924-1987)
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James A. Baldwin, American Author (1924-1987)
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin, American Author (1924-1987)
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin, American Educator
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore De Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore de Balzac, French Novelist (1799-1850)
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura, Canadian Psychologist (1925-  )
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
Elizabeth Banks, American Actress (1974-  )
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
Joseph Barbera, American Cartoonist (1911-2006)
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
Robert Barclay, Scottish Writer
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
Jim Barksdale, American Businessman (1943-  )
 
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