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higher power
«They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed»
«Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.»
Author: William Barclay
| Keywords:
arms, everlasting, flow, higher power, lean, leaner, lean back, Less Than Perfect, linger, lingered, offering, peace offering, presence, presence of God, security, serenity, too little
«There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
considered, high-powered, higher power, Mass, mutant, powered, production, prototype, prototypes, rare, Weird
«I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
aggregated, Corporations, corruption, endeavor, enthrone, enthroned, enthrones, era, eras, higher power, high hand, prejudices, prolong, prolongs, reign, reigning, republic, The Corporation, The Republic
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Power,
Truth
| Keywords:
climb, higher power, higher up, in vain, mountains, mountain climbing, powers, training, vain
«There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accordingly, derived, enlightened, enlightening, free state, higher, higher power, independent, recognize, The Independent, The State, treats
«Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
deprived, endured, equanimity, higher power, lowest, misfortune, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
affection, chivalry, curb, curbed, curbing, curbs, empty, finds, grievance, grievances, higher power, lance, lances, lancing, liberty, maiden, name, nobility, nurse, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, protection, protections, pure, staying power, sword, tyrant
«Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
calamity, chief, combining, effect, higher power, lacking, rests, spells, undirected, usefulness, useless, utterly
