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“It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from. His character. The greatest truth of the gospel is Christ Himself — a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ.”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go to the cross, and meet there God in sacrifice. Behold Him as Jesus bearing your sin, receiving the shafts of your enmity! Embrace Him, believe in Him, take Him to your inmost heart. Do this, and you shall feel sin die within you, and a glorious quickening, Christ the power of God, Christ in you the hope of glory, shall be consciously risen upon you, as the morn of your new creation.”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.”
Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, give Thine own sweet rest to me, That I may speak with soothing power A word in season, as from Thee, To weary ones in needful hour.”
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) said by 1879 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.”
Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Holy Father, in The cultural values of science, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Scripta Varia 105 (8-11 November 2002), page xiv
“Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) first seen 1855 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and Works of Goethe (1855; repr. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856) vol. 1, p. 30, often misattributed to Thomas Carlyle.
“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A work is imaginative in virtue of the power of its images over our emotions; not in virtue of any rarity or surprisingness in the images themselves.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Foolish critics often betray their ignorance by saying that a painter or a writer "only copies what he has seen, or puts down what he has known." They forget that no man imagines what he has not seen or known, and that it is in the selection of the characteristic details that the artistic power is manifested.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish to call special attention to the psychological fact, that fairies and demons, remote as they are from experience, are not created by a more vigorous effort of imagination than milk maids and poachers. The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezveus for lovers.”
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”
Jodi Picoult (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[E]lections to the supreme power having upon some occasions produced the most destructive contentions, many states would take refuge from a return of the same calamities, in a rule of succession; and no rule presents itself so obvious, certain, and intelligible, as consanguinity of birth.”
William Paley (1743–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments – astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever! … I think it is the most wonderful thing that I have ever experienced, and I congratulate you with all my heart on this wonderful discovery.”
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A message on a phonograph cylinder, recorded by Arthur Sullivan at a demonstration of Thomas Edison's phonograph in London on 5 October 1888; cited from Michael Chanan Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and it…
“The strongest use of the symbol is to be found in its magical power of doubling the actual universe, and placing by its side an ideal universe, its exact counterpart, with which it can be compared and contrasted, and, by means of curiously connecting fibres, form with it an organic whole, from which modern analysis has developed her surpassing geometry.”
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like to hunt. We went to a nuclear power plant and hunted in the woods next to it. I got a 34-point rabbit in there. We always go at night. It's easier. All the critters glow in the dark out there.”
Larry the Cable Guy (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who obtain or inherit predatory wealth and privilege realize the ultimate means of imposing austerity and demolishing the power of democracies is deception, junk economics....”
Michael Hudson (economist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And all sad scenes and thoughts and feelings vanish In that sweet sleep no power can ever banish, That one best sleep which never wakes again.”
James Thomson (poet, born 1834) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, let us understand that the power of Christianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths and doctrines, but in the truth and the doctrine. There is but one Christ crucified. All the gathered might of the infinite God is in that word.”
Herrick Johnson (1832–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.”
Susan Kay (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression-how long before the pot boiled over.”
Chris Abani (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.”
Hugo Black (1886–1971) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adamson v. California, 332 U.S. 46, 89 (Dissent) (1947)
“That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.”
Hugo Black (1886–1971) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writing for the court in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947) about the consequences of the First Amendments Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause for the separation of church and state.
“[A]ny broad unlimited power to hold laws unconstitutional because they offend what this Court conceives to be the ‘conscience of our people’ ... was not given by the Framers, but rather has been bestowed on the Court by the Court.”
Hugo Black (1886–1971) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Griswold v. Connecticut 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
“Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.”
Hugo Black (1886–1971) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 267–68 (1967)
“This behavior not only exacerbates tensions in its own right; it has the effect of stifling community confidence that’s absolutely vital for effective policing. And this, in turn, deepens the widespread distrust provoked by the department’s other unconstitutional exercises of police power – none of which is more harmful than its pattern of excessive force.”
Eric Holder (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no soul under heaven that commonly lies under the commanding power of the Word, but that soul that has an interest in the Word of Promise.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Awareness that the Government may be watching chills associational and expressive freedoms. And the Government’s unrestrained power to assemble data that reveal private aspects of identity is susceptible to abuse.”
Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: United States v. Jones, 132 S. Ct. 945, 956 (2012) (concurring).
“I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.”
Kevin Warwick (born 1954) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Kevin Warwick "Cyborg 1.0", Wired, pp.145-151, February 2000.
“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.”
Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain (1963) by Felix Morrow
“The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and unless they went in for a revolution he confessed he did not see how they were going to bring about a radical reform of the system of land tenure in this country.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Tralee (15 November 1878), quoted in Michael Davitt, The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland; Or, The Story of the Land League Revolution (1904), p. 137
“I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character — not wealth or power or position — is of supreme worth.”
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That pastor effects the most in the end who comes into closest personal contact with his charge. No amount of organizing, no skill in creating machinery and manipulating "committees" is a substitute for this. Who feels the power of a tear in the eye of a committee?”
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I need Thy presence every passing hour; What, but Thy grace, can foil the tempter's power? Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, oh, abide with me!”
Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847) said by 1847 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.”
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth is always some inner power without explanation. The more genuine part of my life is unrecognizable, extremely intimate and impossible to define. (p11)”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Constitution denies the states the power to make anything other than gold or silver coins legal tender in payment of debts.”
Peter Schiff (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Think about all the rules and regulations American businesses have to deal with. How can we compete with nations that don’t impose those excessive burdens? Does anyone think that the United States could ever have become a great power with all the rules, regulations, and taxation that exist today?”
Peter Schiff (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.”
António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Salazar: biographical study - page 383; of Franco Nogueira - Published by Atlantis Publishing, 1977
“They were not demons, they were just men who had too much power and not enough sense.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men in power always pretend things like virtue, or divine guidance, some kind of mandate to ‘protect’ the rest of us. If we believe that the Almighty put them were they are, it’s easier for us to swallow what they do to us.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Morality is an axis that doesn’t interest us,” Mraize said calmly. “Only loyalty and power are relevant, for morality is as ephemeral as the changing weather. It depends upon the angle from which you view it.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who would have thought that bearing an ancient, divine mantle of power and honor would involve so many meetings?”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a frantic, insane brawl for power.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source