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title: "1 Exercise Power Quotes By Katharine Jefferts Schori"
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> [Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-jefferts-schori/power-as-human-beings-exercise-power-to-me-means-the-ability-to/)

Katharine Jefferts Schori

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## More by Katharine Jefferts Schori

> [But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-jefferts-schori/but-for-us-to-assume-that-god-could-not-act-in-other-ways-is-i-think/)

Katharine Jefferts Schori

> [See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-jefferts-schori/see-the-encounters-of-jesus-life-as-windows-into-possibilities-for/)

Katharine Jefferts Schori

> [I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-jefferts-schori/i-think-easter-is-most-profoundly-about-meaning-not-mechanism/)

Katharine Jefferts Schori

> [Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-jefferts-schori/power-as-human-beings-exercise-power-to-me-means-the-ability-to/)

Katharine Jefferts Schori

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