Quotes about Power

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I do not deny in the least that the rational nature will always keep its free will, but I declare that the power and effectiveness of Christ's cross and of his death, which he took upon himself toward the end of the aeons, are so great as to be enough to set right and save, not only the present and the future aeon, but also all the past ones, and not only this order of us humans, but also the heavenly orders and powers." (Comm. in Rom. 4.10)

There still remains only God to protect man against man. Either we will serve him in spirit and in truth or we shall enslave ourselves ceaselessly, more and more, to the monstrous idol that we have made with our own hands to our own image and likeness. Etienne Gilson, 20th century

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

It is heaven that rules.

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.