Inspirational Quotes on Power

“If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.”

“The seed once sown grows of itself, from its own impulse and power of life. The self-inherent power of growth of the kingdom of God.”

“In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.”

“There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter.”

“If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.”

“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”

“Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”

“All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power. ”

“If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied. ”

“All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions. ”

“In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.”

“If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.”

“Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.”

“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.”

“As the saints of God meet together Jesus still manifests Himself. And seeing Him, there comes to us a new joy and peace, a new sense of the purpose and worthfulness of life. Seeing Him there comes to us a new power for battle and for conquest.”

“Dont pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.”

“When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.”

“If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.”

“How important that we revel in and understand and experience the love of God and, in the power and assurance of that love, declare it to the world.”