Will Power Quotes
The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do
But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.
I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.
We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.
Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem.
The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.
To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.
Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.
We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.
War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.
The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.
No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power.
My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
