One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
Jean GenetStichwörter: power prostitution virtue corruptibility
If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: inspirational pain power god death suffering sin salvation jesus philosophical death-and-dying christian thought-provoking cross catholic redemption christ catholic-author good-friday gadfly suffering-jesus purpose-of-pain purpose-of-suffering reason-for-suffering reason-of-pain theological
Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
Duane ElmerStichwörter: power service servant servanthood
Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator.
Duane ElmerStichwörter: power service imagery servant servanthood
With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can’t learn that...
Jo Nesbøfear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.
LucretiusBut by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.
Howard ZinnStichwörter: injustice power justice law privilege discord legal-system
Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?
Robert Louis StevensonStichwörter: power humanity humility leadership frailty
Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.
John le CarréStichwörter: power helplessness world-order
he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded "power" barbarically so the world would not find them out
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