Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

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.

Umberto Eco

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?

Richard Dawkins

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

Samuel Chase

I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a State legislature.

Saint Augustine

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

Walter Russell

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.

Joseph Addison

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.

Mark Batterson

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

Charles Spurgeon

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Alan Watts

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

C. S. Lewis

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Rem Koolhaas

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.

Thomas Guthrie

The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.

Victor Hugo

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

John Milton

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

Matthew Henry

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

John Ruskin

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

Jack McDevitt

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

C. S. Lewis

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

J. William Fulbright

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

David Jeremiah

It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.

Dante Alighieri

I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.