Powerless Quotes

336 quotes by 280 authors

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable… — Henri Nouwen
Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same… — Stuart Duncan
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith. — Mark Galli
When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [. .… — John Trudell
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and… — Josiah Warren
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those… — Josiah Warren
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization,… — Charles Lindbergh
The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth. — Unknown Author
Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or… — Shakti Gawain
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. — Cynthia Ozick
I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics.… — Channing Tatum
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but… — Joseph Wood Krutch
We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we… — Blaise Pascal
We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And… — Andy Stern
Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful. — Diana Loomans
The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at… — Ayi Kwei Armah
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed… — Lewis Nkosi

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