Quotes About Greater Power

“Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love”

— Abdu'l-Baha

“The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.”

— Laurie R. King

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the
language of word.”

— Kedar Joshi

“There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.”

— Luis Marques

“There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.”

— Hillary DePiano

“God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.”

— Vance Havner

“I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“FIRST MORAL
Good manners are not easy
They need a little care,
But when we least expect it
Bring rewards both rich and rare.
SECOND MORAL
Brute force or bribes of diamonds
Bend others to your will,
But gentle words have greater power
And gain more conquests still.”

— Charles Perrault

“There is no greater power than faith, and there will be no greater army than one driven by it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.”

— Peter S. Beagle

“At one time in my infancy I also knew no Latin, and yet by listening I learnt it with no fear or pain at all, from my nurses caressing me, from people laughing over jokes, and from those who played games and were enjoying them. I learnt Latin without the threat of punishment from anyone forcing me to learn it. My own heart constrained me to bring its concepts to birth, which I could not have done unless I had learnt some words, not from formal teaching but by listening to people talking; and they in turn were the audience for my thoughts. This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.”

— Augustine Of Hippo

“I smell guilt. There is a stench of guilt upon the air.
I see you all, whole and healthy, with your powers intact - such prompt appearances! - and I ask myself ... why did this band of wizards never come to the aid of their master, to whom they swore eternal loyalty? And I answer myself, they must have believed me broken, they thought I was gone. They slipped back among my enemies, and they pleaded innocence, and ignorance, and bewitchment ...
And then I ask myself, but how could they have believed I would not rise again? They, who knew the steps I took, long ago, to guard myself against mortal death? They, who had seen proofs of the immensity of my power in the times when I was mightier than any wizard living? And I answer myself, perhaps they believed a still greater power could exist, one that could vanquish even Lord Voldemort ... perhaps they now pay allegiance to another ...”

— J.K. Rowling

“Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.”

— Paul Epworth

“Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!”

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.”

— Susan B. Anthony

“When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you.”

— Stephan Labossiere

“Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us-but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing-but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. ( ... ) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.”

— Thomas Watson

“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude ... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.”

— Charles De Secondat

“So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.”

— David Bohm

“Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.”

— Margaret Atwood

“If a man works without any selfish motive in view, does he not gain anything? Yes, he gains the highest. Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. It is more paying from the point of view of health also. Love, truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form our highest ideal, because in them lies such a manifestation of power. In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant. It is hard to do it, but in the heart of our hearts we know its value, and the good it brings. It is the greatest manifestation of power - this tremendous restraint; self-restraint is a manifestation of greater power than all outgoing action.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.”

— Richard Engel

“There is no greater power on this earth than story." Will paced the length of the room. "People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History." Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. "This, and these"-he gestured to the library's teeming shelves-"they're a testament to the country's rich supernatural history.”

— Libba Bray

“There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.”

— Wayne Dyer

“There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.”

— Leonard Jacobson

“Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge”

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

“There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.”

— Richard Shusterman

“The true lover is not the one who says: "You need to be by my side and I need to take care of you, because we are loyal to each other," but the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom. And without fear of betrayal, he accepts and respects the other person's dream, trusting in the greater power of Love.”

— Paulo Coelho

“It is a blessing for us that, as sin lives, and the flesh lives, and the devil lives, so Jesus lives. It is also a blessing that, whatever strength these may have to ruin us, Jesus has still greater power to save us.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Privileged groups work for greater power consolidation through favoritism.”

— Bryant McGill

“Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.”

— Roger McDonald

“History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.”

— Massad Ayoob

“It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences?”

— George Q. Cannon

“The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...”

— Sri Aurobindo

“If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.”

— Tibor R. Machan

“The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.”

— Frank Herbert

“The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we're a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.”

— Caroline Myss

“Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.”

— Charles Colson

“The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.”

— Richard Branson

“There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.”

— Madonna Ciccone

“Men in power are always interested in greater power.”

— Dan Brown

“I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.”

— Robert Redford