“ Worry — a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
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“ The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. ”
- Andrew Murray- Copy
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“ Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow. ”
- Harold Lindsell- Copy
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“ Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind. ”
- Rupert Brooke- Copy
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“ Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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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. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Love thereforehe most beautiful phenomenon in the soul-filled creation, the omnipotent magnet in the spiritual world, the source of devotion and of the most sublime virtueove is only the reflection of this single original power, an attraction of the excellent, grounded upon an instantaneous exchange of the personality, a confusion of the beings… ”
- Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius Is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts… ”
- Ray Kroc- Copy
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“ Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent… ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
- 485
“ In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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