I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is that, by faith in Christ, the ruling power of sin is immediately broken, and that every sin, of every kind, may be overcome by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.”
“Paul took care not to steal an atom of the glory for himself,
but he ascribed all to the power of him who loved him and gave himself for him.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
“There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“When the truth of God has broken your heart, and afterwards bound it up; when Christ has so spoken it to you that you have felt the power of it, then you will speak it as men should speak who are ambassadors for God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
—Sigmund Freud
Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power
—Laozi
If it should ever please God to call me to any situation of power, or to any higher eminence, which I do not expect, he would furnish me with the talents necessary for the discharge of its duties.
—William Wilberforce
Perhaps my enemies may have so much power given them from above, as to confine my body: but if I am bound, the word of the LORD will not be bound.
—George Whitefield
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
—Marcus Aurelius
If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
—Aristotle
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
—Plato
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
—René Descartes
I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world, and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts.
—René Descartes
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
—Seneca
“Infinite power shall stoop that you may lean upon its shoulder.”
— Charles Spurgeon
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh to care with a deeper caring—to pray with diviner power!
—Amy Carmichael
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
—Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
—Plato
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
—Socrates
Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
—Aristotle
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
—Aristotle
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.
—Charlie Chaplin
Do not distrust His power, or His love! Put His promise to the proof!
—John Wesley