Dominion Quotes - Page 2

• A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Religion, Finals

  Alexander Pope (1999). “The Dunciad: In Four Books”, Longman Publishing Group

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• It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

  John L. Dagg

  Mind, Desire, Sin

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• Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Unjust, Eternal

  "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• We need people to be taught that they possess a hidden leader on the inside, and to reconnect to that leader, they must reconnect to the Creator who placed that leadership potential in them. They must be reconnected to God, and this is why we should come back to God not really to go to heaven, but to rediscover our true leadership dominion mandate, and then serve that to the world.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Leader, Heaven

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• Death hath no dominion.

  Catherynne M. Valente

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• You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Discipline, Over You, Self Control

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• When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

  Jerry Bridges

  Sin, Christ, Penalties

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.21, NavPress

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• God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

  Brigham Young

  Progress, World, Ends

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Taken, Heart, Forgiving

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• When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mind, Atheism, Prejudice

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• There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Animal, Heaven

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Spring, Cost Of Living, Cities

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• I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

  Alexander the Great

  Knowledge, Excellent

  "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.

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• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Pride

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.196, NYU Press

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• To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2016). “The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol III: Last Judgment; Last Judgment Continued; Last Judgment Posthumous”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

  John Henry Newman

  Love, Strong, Powerful

  John Henry Newman, Mary Katherine Tillman (2001). “Rise and Progress of Universities And, Benedictine Essays”, p.85, Gracewing Publishing

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• Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Real, Self

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

  James F. Byrnes

  Mistake, Believe, Government

  James F. Byrnes (1947). “Speaking Frankl.y”

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• Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

  Pope John Paul II

  Reality, Men, Temptation

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• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  Aaron Klug

  Goes On, Physics, Cambridge

  "Les Prix Nobel". Yearbooks series by the Nobel Foundation, 1982.

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• However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

  Kate Millett

  Power, Culture, Fundamentals

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.25, Columbia University Press

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• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, World, Spheres

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “The Art of Controversy”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God made him His understudy, His king to rule over everything that had life. Man was master, man lived in the realm of god. He lived on terms of equality with God. God was a faith God. All God had to do was to believe that the sun was, and the sun was. All God had to do was to believe that the planets would be, and they were. Man belonged to God's class of being - a faith man, And he lived in the creative realm of God

  John G. Lake

  Kings, Believe, Men

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• O God of our fathers, and Lord of mercy, who has made all things with your word, and ordained man through your wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which you have made, give me wisdom that sits by your throne so that I might understand what is your will and be saved. For I am your servant. Amen.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  Father, Men, Should Have

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