When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I hated how sometimes life threw you a curveball—how you thought you were going to make some money selling a stolen tiger… — John Jodzio Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“In this lifetime we are like Superman who must remain disguised as the nerdy newspaper journalist Clark Kent, or Harry Potter and… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
“When she shut her eyes, her mind grew alert. Her senses opened. All around her, she felt how quickly things formed and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will… — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
