Omnipotence Quotes - Page 2

• Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Faith Religion, If There Is A God

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• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Running, Wisdom

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.80, Knopf

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• Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

  Epicurus

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Faith Religion

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• Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

  Alan Watts

  Knowing, Not Knowing, Done

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• Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Goodness, Highest

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• Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Lying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

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• O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Prayer, Knowing, Thrones

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2009). “A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy with God Through a Daily Devotional Life”, p.246, Moody Publishers

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• Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

  Vance Havner

  Spiritual, Jesus, Needs

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• A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Men, Flesh, Arms

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• We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

  Charlotte Bronte

  God, Nature, Night

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.264, Penguin

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• It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

  Peter De Vries

  God, Fear, Order

  Mackerel Plaza ch. 1 (1958)

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• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  Victor Hugo

  Evil, Effort, Trying

  "Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs ..., Volume 1". Book by Iam A. Freeman, p. 520, March 26, 2014.

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• The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
  His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
  Do act the parts.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Love, Knowledge, Justice

  "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.

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• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  J. William Fulbright

  Virtue

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.16, Random House

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• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Monsters, Pieces

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Pride, Thinking

  "Saiva Siddhanta" by Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volume 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

  Richard Dawkins

  Mind, Atheism, Knows

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Childhood, Flying

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• They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Boredom, Succeed, Experiments

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• Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Justice, Perfection, Exertion

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• If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

  Wendell Berry

  Fate, Love Is, Men

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• Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Moving, Hands

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• If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Humility, Understanding

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• It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Responsibility, Men, Sky

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