Our Power Quotes

238 Our Power quotes by 187 unique authors

Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do… — Peter Singer
If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we… — Audre Lorde
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they… — Alan Moore
We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will… — P. C. Cast
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -… — George Eliot
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word… — Sam Harris
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and… — Karl Popper
Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it… — John Piper
Prayer begins where our power ends. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power… — Marcus Aurelius
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in… — Brian D. McLaren
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… — John le Carre
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. — Jose Saramago
I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be… — Ellen DeGeneres
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals,… — Epictetus
But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power? — Hans Christian Andersen
Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never… — John Henry Newman
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power,… — Seneca the Younger
Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away,… — Barack Obama
Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he… — Thomas Jefferson
Our power is not so much in us as through us. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our power is in our ability to decide. — R. Buckminster Fuller

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