Powerless Quotes - Page 8

• Why should my love be powerless to help another?

  George MacDonald

  Love Is, Helping, Should

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.

  John Flavel

  Heart, Men, Understanding

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• When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Son, Focus

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• If you think you are powerless, then you are

  Monica Denise Brown

  Thinking, Ifs

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• When we feel we are powerless our ego most wants to change the things in our world. As we realize we have the power to change our reality the maturity that comes with that understanding changes us, and we find ourselves in acceptance of what is with less desire of feeling our need to change the world around us.

  Gregg Braden

  Acceptance, Maturity, Reality

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• Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

  Roger Cohen

  World, Conspiracy, Force

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• And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love Is, Treasure, Want

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• Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

  Helen Thomas

  Medicine, Elderly, Sick

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• You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Reality, Play, Long

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 27, 2016

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• It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Men, Age, May

  William Robertson Smith (1889). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”

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• If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.

  Craig Murray

  Voice, Empowering, Use

  Craig Murray (2007). “Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person.

  Andreas Libavius

  Strong, Art, Men

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• That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

  Fighting, Misery, Horror

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• I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything about the many problems in the world around us. We are so often left to wonder whether one person can possibly make a difference. Mother Teresa said yes, we can. Her life was resounding proof that it is possible

  Craig Kielburger

  Mother, Yes We Can, Differences

  Craig Kielburger (2010). “Free The Children”, p.64, Greystone Books

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• Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Stories, Storytelling

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• To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

  Phillips Brooks

  Believe, Would Be, Belief

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Exercise, Color, White

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• A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we can do nothing. We are the children of God. We are in darkness, only as God enlightens our understanding. We are powerless, only as God helps us. The work that we have to do here is of that nature that we cannot do it unless we have the assistance of the Almighty.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Nature, Children, Men

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.

  Rumi

  Love, Truth, Expression

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• A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.

  Joseph Sobran

  Hypocritical, Victim, Force

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• Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Snakes

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• For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

  Dante Alighieri

  Power, Evil, Defense

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.

  Ghassan Andoni

  Powerful, Frustration, Movement

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• We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

  Chris Hayes

  Powerful, America, Accountability

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• Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

  Richard Hammond

  Men, Supermodel, Has Beens

  "Top Gear". TV Series, December 26, 2004.

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