5,584 Quotes About Power

Suffocating slowly, do I give up or rise?

In those moments when I have to choose to practice faith, that’s when I feel strong.

We cannot live our lives afraid of those who confuse brutality with power. If we do, we only prove them right.

Celeste had no love for Henry either, but death had taken all his power and now she could afford a little bit of charity.

You are far more powerful than that, are you not? You change the way people think, shape the way they see the world.

Look around you, Riley—the soulless are the pinnacle of evolution. Powerful, immortal, and brilliant. We could cure death and disease. All the Exemplars with me today were on death’s door—some were homeless, others sick, old, and weak. I saved their lives with a simple change to their DNA. It’s the perfect solution!

There is no such thing as love without pain. Love is committed and very vulnerable. In love, we open our hearts and make the cords of our most tender emotions available to the plucking fingers of other people. In sharing the love of God, it is inevitable that we will also share His suffering.

Love seeks its life outside itself; self seeks its life in itself. Love, in order to secure and produce, sacrifices selfishness; while self, in order to possess, keeps itself and sacrifices love.

The cross has never been compatible to any culture. Its preaching has always established a counter-culture. Jesus Christ is timeless. He is not the product of any human culture and thus has never been enmeshed in any one culture. He both transforms and transcends culture.