Omnipotent Quotes
109 Omnipotent quotes by 95 unique authors
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The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be…
— Bertrand Russell
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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing…
— Bertrand Russell
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A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never…
— John Steinbeck
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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
— Ben Bernanke
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God may not be omnipotent, but he is omniactive.
— Kedar Joshi
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The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as…
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor…
— Epicurus
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The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any…
— Vladimir Lenin
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human…
— Gore Vidal
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Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried…
— Jimmy Carter
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If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't…
— Julian Assange
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
— Mason Cooley
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the…
— Charles Darwin
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Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would…
— Penn Jillette
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by…
— H. L. Mencken
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God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
— Little Richard
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is…
— Epicurus
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
— C.S. Lewis
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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He…
— John Piper
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A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is…
— Karen Armstrong
Who Wrote These Omnipotent Quotes
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