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• At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Passion, Night

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose.

  Gerald Holton

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Science

  Gerald James Holton (1986). “The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.183, CUP Archive

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• If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.

  Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabre

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

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• Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

  L. Tom Perry

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Choices

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• Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Losing, Lost

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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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• Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Mixtures, Definitions, Architecture

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• If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Christian, Easy, Handle

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “The Vision of His Glory”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• [M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break.

  Sullivan Ballou

  Love, Break, Cables

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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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• Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.

  L. Tom Perry

  Strong, Mean, Knowledge And Power

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• Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

  Walter Russell

  Happiness, Men, Joy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Years, People

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.185, Psychology Press

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• Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a "city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Cities, Heaven

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

  Umberto Eco

  Differences, Choices, Atheism

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• And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Giving, Bereavement

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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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• Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

  Basilea Schlink

  Prayer, Father, Blessed

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• Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Baby

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

  Umberto Eco

  Pride, Order, Ideas

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God divides the stillness of His omnipresent Oneness into mated pairs, and simultaneously multiplies their power to simulate His omnipotence and omniscience through fast centripetal motion. He then unites His mated pairs to simulate His Oneness, and simultaneously multiplies their speed of centrifugal motion until they disappear into His omnipresent stillness.

  Walter Russell

  Oneness, Balance, Pairs

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