| 单词 | omnipotence |
| 例句 | My wickedness five years ago, or six, or twelve, has no existence except as now, mumbling, mumbling, sacrificing the slain world to the omnipotence of words, I strain my memory to regain it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Tempier abolished many Aristotelian doctrines that contradicted God’s omnipotence, such as, “God can not move the heavens in a straight line, because that would leave behind a vacuum.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She had tried to get permission through Don Apolinar Moscote, but he had lost all authority in the face of the military omnipotence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The same wind I’ve always felt my entire life—the Call of the Void—but now it surges not just before me but all around me with self-satisfied omnipotence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s why the Smiths are such an incredible band because Morrissey will write lyrics, within two lines, which move from incredible omnipotence to just crushing self-loathing. Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z “The greatest dangers of the American republics proceed from the omnipotence of the majority,” Tocqueville wrote. JCT: Obamacare's Exchange Subsidies Will Remove 8 Million Americans from the Tax Rolls 2011-10-28T13:16:53Z Delusions of omnipotence can be, she observes, just as dangerous as crises of confidence, but seldom recognised as such. Panic, chronic anxiety and burnout: doctors at breaking point 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z If God needs a bunch of FBI agents in 1950s clothes running around making us spill our coffee to keep things running, then his professed omnipotence is a total hoax, isn't it? Pick of the week: Can Matt Damon outrun God? 2011-03-04T02:01:00Z And they keep reinventing it, in a perpetual cycle, with godlike omnipotence and a savage spirit of competition. Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z Gus’s cranky obsessions are catnip to Mr. Jones, who makes a meal of the character’s belief in the omnipotence of Alexander the Great and the curative powers of Windex. Review: ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’ Is Something Tired, Something New 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Writing about the factory happened because of its omnipotence, the way it physically and metaphorically dwarfs the town, and feels a part of everything. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Lucas Mann Talks About 'Class A' 2013-05-16T19:00:06Z Veidt tells Manhattan that once the device is placed inside of his brain, it will erase the memory of his omnipotence and leave only his humanity. A divine interlude in the tunnel of love: "Watchmen" and the intersection of comic books and faith 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z “Picasso and the Camera,” at Gagosian, could have used a bit of curatorial omnipotence. Picasso Aplenty, at the Pace and Gagosian Galleries 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Even on death row, a murderer projects a certain omnipotence. Sharon Tate: Unwitting victims’ rights martyr 2013-04-02T20:02:00Z She disguises her authorial presence as a kind of coolheaded omnipotence. Untangling the Story of a Deadly Blaze and ‘The Arsonist’ Who Lit It 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z To read his account of the administration’s foreign policy is to yearn for an earlier era of American diplomacy, when blarney about the nation’s omnipotence was not permitted to substitute for realistic prudence. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The fan frenzy surrounding the freshly released teaser for Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker serves as a timely reminder of Disney’s omnipotence at the box office. Disney prepares to strike back at Netflix 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z She’s Everything He Wants, and Therein Lies the Problem Who hasn’t entertained a fantasy of romantic omnipotence in which a dream partner complies with your every wish? Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z Of course, it's good that these stories are emerging, but the seeming omnipotence of these rich dodgy dealers can sometimes make one feel utterly powerless. Celebrity divas: the foolish, fabulous, not-so-fearsome rich 2012-11-15T16:25:36Z Anyway, Judith’s faith in her omnipotence starts to grow. Books of The Times: ?The Land of Decoration? by Grace McCleen 2012-03-21T22:17:22Z But Simon can exert God-like omnipotence from his realm beyond the body, and this has somehow resulted in worldwide war and famine. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z In one scene from the novel, a psychologist surmises that Michaels’s career was the source of “his feelings of omnipotence and grandiosity.” Reading Bill O’Reilly’s Old Novel About a TV Newsman Who Murders Several People After Losing His Job 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Careworn, eternally wary, hard-schooled in creating the illusion of omnipotence, this Henry would command in any production. Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The manic phase of a bipolar cycle often produces a sense of omnipotence and infinite possibility that can feel so wonderfully exciting that patients often stop taking their medication. Review: ‘Touched With Fire,’ a Love Story Between Two Bipolar Poets 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Behind it all is a collective fantasy of invulnerability, omnipotence and eternal life. | 'Real Steel': ?Real Steel,? a Tale of Robot Boxers - Review 2011-10-06T21:49:06Z “House of Cards,” based on a British series, is at heart a fantasy of competence and omnipotence. The Trump Administration Shakes ‘House of Cards’ Hard 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But what good is all that omniscience without omnipotence? 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Henry Is All Heat, Fury and Menace 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The movie burnishes the image of this visionary C.E.O. even as it tries to peek behind the curtain at the gimcrack machinery of omnipotence. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z And when the tale soars into the realm of superheroes, it explores the moral complications of omnipotence and the paradoxes of theodicy. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Thus does Gurney, exercising the divine omnipotence of playwrights, generously present the last of his muddled men of privilege, resigned to his extinction and poised on the edge of the eternity of the open sea. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Trump also conveys a sense of omnipotence, or an ability to accomplish virtually any task, no matter how formidable. Donald Trump thinks he’s a god. Even worse, his supporters agree 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z There was in this more than a trace of postcolonial melancholia – the feelings of despondency that come with the loss of fantasies of imperial omnipotence. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z In the face of mounting political crises, Netanyahu has carefully crafted an appearance of omnipotence, campaigning on his insistence that only he is capable of leading the tiny country. Israeli doctors reveal Netanyahu’s heart problem only after implanting pacemaker 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Schiff said the censure resolution “would accuse me of omnipotence, the leader of some a vast Deep State conspiracy, and of course, it is nonsense.” House censures Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The exclusive worship of Isis was reflected in her perceived omnipotence and identification with other gods. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z And with that, Mr. Eccles set America’s central bank on a one-way track from impotence to omnipotence. How the Fed Opened Pandora’s Box 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Their lives are chaos, because they’re alone, and they use their jobs as a way to have omnipotence in the world. Jamie Lee Curtis finds the truth, even in that thing called the multiverse 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z For Lear the psychoanalyst, these fantasies are often manifestations of the primal human fantasy, which is of omnipotence. Review | Out of unbearable loss, a vision of radical hope 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The effect is a feeling of omnipotence cut through with utter helplessness. Review | 3 operas in 3 days? With Met’s powerful fall trio, it was energizing. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Needless to say, there is no longer any single television impresario with that kind of omnipotence. Review | The comedians who broke the glass ceiling — and laughed 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “With this action, he confirmed a constitutional coup and the return to an anti-democratic regime of omnipotence,” said Oussama Khlifi, head of the parliamentary bloc for the Heart of Tunisia party. Tunisian president dissolves parliament, escalating political crisis 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “He believes in his omnipotence and he’s making mistakes,” Mr. Barkey said, “but he’s so surrounded by yes men that nobody can challenge him.” How Did Turkey’s Economy Go So Wrong? 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z But the omnipotence of the binge model has been greatly exaggerated, in part because it, by definition, is a private event rather than a collective experience. Column: Could ‘Succession’ save serial television from the blight of the binge? 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The leader, hungry for adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth, projects grandiose omnipotence — while the followers, rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury, yearn for a parental figure. Black flag: Understanding the Trumpists' latest threatening symbol 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The autocrat, who celebrates a grotesque hyper-masculinity, projects an aura of omnipotence. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z While Republicans and Democrats will continue to spar over Pentagon funding and other national security issues, the era of pushback against the omnipotence of generals now seems part of the culture of Congress. Once in Thrall of ‘the Generals,’ Congress Now Gives the Orders on Military Issues 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z They bring with them feelings of omnipotence, for the victims are largely powerless. Don't be fooled by Joe Biden: None of his big proposals will become reality — and he knows it 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z For two decades, as China climbed, step by step, toward global eminence, Washington's inside-the-Beltway power elite was blinded by its overarching dreams of eternal military omnipotence. Washington’s delusion of endless world dominion: Is it finally collapsing? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z But demagogues are revered because, like all cult leaders, they flout conventions, are outrageous and crude, claim omnipotence and disdain traditional decorum. Bandaging the corpse: Biden's big bailout can't pull America out of its death spiral 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z This can also create a feeling of "shared omnipotence," or the idea that someone with whom you identify and has presumed power winds up giving the proxy more power by default. Narcissism can be contagious — and the repercussions extend beyond relationships 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z His shared omnipotence with his followers borders on the delusional. Trump is not mentally fit to be president: He should not remain in office — even for one final week 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z The leader, hungry for adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth, projects grandiose omnipotence—while the followers, rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury, yearn for a parental figure. The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z As part of Trump's god complex and his followers' feelings of shared omnipotence, he is offering the cult members a type of promised land. Dr. Seth Norrholm: How to survive the physical, financial and emotional abuse of the Trump era 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z A third said that “a megalomaniacal, grandiose omnipotence appears to pervade Mr. Goldwater’s personality.” Perspective | Mary Trump: Psychiatrists know what’s wrong with my uncle. Let them tell voters. 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Even though outsiders may view the leader's behavior as "cartoonish," the projection of omnipotence and infallibility is "the essence of narcissism." Narcissism can be contagious — and the repercussions extend beyond relationships 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Saltzman became a prolific filmmaker; he brought in previous collaborator Morgan Freeman to lend the voice of omnipotence to a few lines that could have used polishing. Review: When a young man went on a spiritual pilgrimage and met the Beatles 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z It imparts a feeling of godlike omnipotence to the powerless. American bloodlands: In a deeply polarized nation, mass violence is not far away 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z His air of omnipotence was so complete, his inability to control the streets looked to many like failure, or worse: treachery. Putin's ‘grey cardinal’ steps back into shadows 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Gone temporarily is whatever omnipotence I command as their teacher. Valentine’s Day was humiliating for me as a child. I tell my students about it every year. 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Thus he is driven by a need to recreate the feeling of infantile omnipotence. Iran and Donald Trump's mind: Is this crisis his Reichstag fire? 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z When he isn't denigrating Wilson, Gøtzsche seems to impute to him an omnipotence somewhat disproportionate to his role as chief executive. "Evidence-based medicine" and the expulsion of Peter Gøtzsche 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Madani found the omnipotence exhilarating, said one psychiatrist who examined her. Failed Notre-Dame Plot Leads to Shame, Regret and Heavy Sentences 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z So any impeachment proceeding will fail to remove the president, which Democrats believe people will interpret as more evidence of his omnipotence. Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The Quran would regard any such demonstrations as unworthy of omnipotence. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Dictators depend on projecting an image of omnipotence. A failed drone attack shows that Nicolás Maduro is vulnerable 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z This omnipotence was to have insulated Mr. Celler from his own irrelevance. Before Ocasio-Cortez, the Elizabeth Holtzman Effect 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s a concept of rescue, grounded in compassion, that makes us feel that what makes God worth worshipping, what makes omnipotence just, is that those over whom power is exercised matter. Scholar Robert Meister on America: Saying “the past is evil” doesn’t mean the evil is past 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Shin Bet agents use seemingly irrelevant snippets of information to create the impression of omnipotence, she said. For Palestinians, Israeli permits a complex tool of control 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z The omnipotence of the broadcast is hard to beat. Is it better to watch the Masters on TV or in person? - Golf Digest 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z It was part of a profound theological reorganisation: the French Revolution dethroned not only the monarch, but also God, whose superlative attributes – omniscience and omnipotence – were now absorbed into the institutions of the state itself. The demise of the nation state 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z With younger children, Dr. Egger said, guilt can get mixed up with magical thinking and a sense of their own omnipotence, as when they feel responsible for a sibling’s illness or disability. A Healthy Dose of Guilt 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z His anger and sense of omnipotence gave him a kind of charisma. Charles Manson’s prosaic and ugly life is over. But his loser cult lives on | Suzanne Moore 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Waititi dressed up and played pretend, and with the help of Marvel’s omnipotence, he can now direct any movie he likes, big or small. The Superweirdo Behind ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z That is the way it has always been in England, where managerial omnipotence has long been considered a virtue. Love the Club. Loathe the American Owner. 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Experts and western diplomats believe Xi is successfully cementing his place at the top of Chinese politics but say his push for omnipotence brings danger. Xi shores up power with demand for army obedience and foreign respect 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z “Palantir” means “one that sees from afar”, a mythical instrument of omnipotence. Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z The Night King then carefully repeated his query, which somewhat detracted from his menacing omnipotence. Our favorite moments from San Diego Comic-Con 2017 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z “He’s never going to feel out at sea, wondering how he’s going to achieve this,” Winderbaum said, and then with a shrug offered a fittingly superhuman claim of omnipotence: “We know how to achieve everything.” The Superweirdo Behind ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Led into this unimaginably misbegotten operation by his delusions of omnipotence, he left the once-mighty British lion a toothless circus animal that would henceforth roll over whenever Washington cracked the whip. The demolition of U.S. global power 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Omnipresence and omnipotence, though, are not the same thing. The sultanate of Oman is taking a kicking 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z He added that it was “wrong to think the mafia operates everywhere, because that way we risk increasing its aura of omnipotence”. Nearly 250 refugees dead or missing after shipwrecks off Libyan coast 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z She considered texting Peipei, “I thought your omnipotence would have arranged a dinner meeting for me by now”—but what was the point of attacking Peipei? “A Small Flame” 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z At one event, the omnipotence of formal baseball’s civil war origins bore an actual living face directly related to that tumultuous past in the form of Walter Lynn Bates, or “Hawkeye”. Hipsters at home plate: the rise of vintage base ball 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Confronted with daunting international challenges, the voters of both countries supported appealing but unstable leaders whose delusions of omnipotence inclined them to military misadventures. The demolition of U.S. global power 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z I don't credit the media with omnipotence when it comes to Clinton's motivation--I know that she's been intrusively investigated to death and I understand her wariness. Early Missteps Seen as a Drag on Bernie Sanders’s Campaign 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z “The irony was powerful: NSA was an agency that was simultaneously being accused of omnipotence and incompetence. It was going deaf and it was reading all of your emails,” he says. Bill Clinton neglect left NSA ‘brain dead’ as al Qaeda plotted 9/11, Michael Hayden says 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z In addition to offering Obama a sort of backhanded tribute - so much damage wrought by just one man in so little time - the Republican critique reinforces reigning theories of presidential omnipotence. What Trumpism means for democracy 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Apparently their deity does, given the alleged omnipotence. In defense of the lunacy of National Signing Day 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Griggs sought adventure on a day when most of the District yielded to nature’s omnipotence. D.C.’s corridor of power yields to a blizzard’s force 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z For someone just entering adulthood and grappling with the attendant challenges, emotions and sense of powerlessness, easy access to firearms is easy access to the ultimate drug: the feeling of omnipotence. America is addicted to guns – which only give an illusion of strength and security | Peter Daou 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z "I chose not to narrate it. I let the voices of the protesters speak for themselves. It was a predictable matrix. The omnipotence of youth. But the movement was out of focus." Sam Slovick captures Occupy L.A.'s rage in 'Radicalized' documentary 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z He cleverly exploits the appeal of presidential omnipotence by contrasting his supposedly decisive style of business leadership as a real estate magnate with the compromises, inertia and policy failures that are inevitable in politics. Donald Trump, the Green Lantern Candidate 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z It is a reminder that China’s reputation for omnipotence in economic matters is hardly unassailable. Troubling Lessons in China’s Crumbling Stock Market 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Such spectacles were, as Michel Foucault famously put it, the “ritual destruction of infamy by omnipotence.” It’s had some military success, but the Islamic State is no existential threat 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z When the Creator of all things was busy creating everything, why did He in His perfect omnipotence leave out fiscal responsibility? Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The goal, he said, is “to create an atmosphere of omnipotence over the detainee.” CIA urged to build rapport with terrorists to extract intelligence 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z To be hobbling around on crutches for several weeks doesn’t do wonders for the old image of omnipotence. Has Anyone Seen Kim Jong Un? Technology pursues the classical divine attributes of omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence—knowing everything, being everywhere, being capable of anything. Apple Watch: To Wear It Like a Man—Or a God? 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z One’s power, one’s omnipotence, stops at the boundary of another separate person’s wants and needs and abilities. Scarlett Johansson Does Not Have Unlimited Potential, And Neither Do You 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z It's an example of magical thinking, an expression of the belief in the omnipotence of human will that psychoanalysts identify as the fundamental infantile fantasy. The child-like faith in reason 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z To shoehorn in said youngsters and to show his omnipotence, he jettisons the most intelligent and still talented American player ever, and in the process raises the ire of an entire nation. Can't see what they can't hit 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The leader also retains some basic lines of authority which form his omnipotence in the system. Kim Jong-un: North Korea's supreme leader or state puppet? 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z In fact, many believers embrace traditional positions held by mainstream religions—including the omnipotence of God and the existence of an afterlife—but say these are made possible by increasing advancements in science and technology. The Rapture of the Nerds 2014-04-17T18:02:49Z There is, for example, that old conundrum about omnipotence—given a twenty-first-century formulation on The Simpsons: “Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that He Himself could not eat it?” How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World [Excerpt] 2014-03-14T13:50:00Z And much as the Internet quickly evolved from curiosity to omnipotence, Big Data is fast becoming part of day-to-day products, services, decision-making and end-to-end business operations. A Big Data POV for the C-Suite 2014-02-04T09:02:00Z We are a species that increasingly has omnipotence without omniscience. Wild Bees Won't Survive in a Human-Dominant World 2013-08-11T16:50:29Z Munich is the clear favorite after nine months of sustained omnipotence at home and abroad, yet Dortmund’s rise from near bankruptcy to this peak in just eight years has its appeal. IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: May 25 2013-05-25T05:31:27Z It is rather driven by the necessity of reacting against God's omnipotence, because when resistance becomes necessary, every means is legitimate. Ten of popular culture's best Machiavellian characters 2013-05-23T05:13:07Z United lost 10 games before Christmas that season and lost their aura of omnipotence. Alex Ferguson was as adept at evolving tactically as any manager football has seen 2013-05-08T13:04:04Z Faith in the omnipotence of central banks explains why the European Central Bank now finds itself in the spotlight. Rock Star Draghi Needs a New Song for Europe 2013-04-15T03:10:13Z United, empowered by the previous season's treble, seemed to have an omnipotence that rendered tactics almost irrelevant. Sir Alex Ferguson will bring tactical nous as well as motivation to Madrid 2013-02-11T17:52:57Z And to demonstrate their “omnipotence,” they became masters of life and death. Deadly Dreams: What Motivates School Shootings? (preview) 2012-12-17T18:15:00.690Z Recoiling from this confrontation with my own awful solitude and omnipotence, I felt myself disintegrating. What Should We Do With Our Visions of Heaven and Hell? 2012-11-27T21:45:00.250Z AtlantisKing Sep 16th 2012 15:45 GMT "... or the final nail in the coffin of the doctrine of central bank omnipotence." The Federal Reserve launches QE3: The power of positive thinking 2012-09-13T21:11:28Z This is about as close to commercial omnipotence as it gets. Apple's rot starts with its Samsung lawsuit win 2012-08-28T20:05:05Z Five years on, picking through the subsequent career histories of those who sparked first the credit crunch and then the crash, the suggestion of omnipotence sounds absurd. Credit crunch: elusive ghosts of the financial feast lurk in the shadows 2012-08-06T21:32:40Z But that's the other thing about a crowd – a sense of its own omnipotence and an incredibly short concentration span. London 2012: inside the stadium, the crowd shows its power 2012-08-03T18:48:34Z It is remarkable to think back on the prevailing attitude toward stabilization policy at the time, which was something like omnipotence on the part of the Fed. Monetary policy: Rethinking macro 2012-07-26T19:59:10Z The dreadful pomp of offended omnipotence, I saw,—I remember. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z Thinking over the words afterwards, Miss Markham admitted to herself that to acknowledge the omnipotence of God, must deprive evil of any power. A Soldier's Son 2012-04-27T02:00:37.640Z Lord Beaconsfield appears to have imparted to his colleagues his own belief in the omnipotence of phrases to remove mountains, and make rough places smooth. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Cowper himself, on emerging from his melancholia at St. Albans, had adopted the extreme Calvinistic tenets in regard to the divine omnipotence. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z It is only those who have an unworthy conception of omniscience and omnipotence that can doubt this. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z On considering the whole of his conduct, it is hardly possible to refrain from concluding that Bonaparte ever looked upon the Pope's supremacy and power as an appendage and satellite of his own paramount omnipotence. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I see so much of the omnipotence of reputation, that I begin to think so. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z As he has omnipotence, he has omniscience too, he is “the Lord who knows all things,” the Asura viçva-vedas. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z They sit here in twelve throne-like niches, more like presiding deities, each wrapt in self-contemplation, than as tributary witnesses to the truth and omnipotence of Him they are intended to announce. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z God’s omnipotence remains unproved for the same reason, and because it is clearly absurd to argue that God exercises power where he may not be. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z In order to effect this miracle, he took refuge in God's omnipotence, i.e., he made theology preach materialism. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z Had these natives desired proof of the omnipotence of the Fire-gods, they could have wished for nothing more. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z They became corrupted by their own perceived omnipotence, and their greatest strength became their most debilitating weakness.” Leading Off: Seeing Good in the Tebow Trade 2012-03-22T17:38:20Z St Paul’s reliance is not upon the “ability” alone, upon the abstract omnipotence of God. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z That mental infirmity in the individual may be irremediable by Deity is a proposition which challenges the assumed omniscient omnipotence. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The notion that he, the most powerful of men, the image of grandeur and human omnipotence, should tremble at every sound, wounded his common human pride acutely. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z He ever cherished high expectations of the future, for he fervently believed in the omnipotence of the Creator, and the inexhaustibility of Nature. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z These signs of the omnipotence of the gods were shown in the reign of Antoninus.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z This state of war shows the omnipotence of the state in its individuality—an individuality that goes even to abstract negativity. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It was necessary to give out that their master during his life having raised others from the dead, had, after his own death, raised himself in virtue of his omnipotence. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z These had been accomplished by the help of God, to whose omnipotence there is nothing difficult. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z Their creeds were widely different, but men acquire a certain wide toleration in the land of the shadow, where it is exceedingly difficult to believe in any thing beyond the omnipotence of evil. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Representing a supreme power, it should have the serenity and frankness of omnipotence. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z God could make brimstone out of his "omnipotence." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Become incapable of suffering, and re-established in his divine omnipotence, was he still afraid of the Jews? Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z The omnipotence of God is, in some measure, made known to the heart of every individual on the face of the earth. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z While the German and French romanticists found in Shakespeare an incentive to something new, the English romanticists could only elevate to omnipotence one who had long been the idol of the theatres. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z I defy her now to deny me omnipotence in Babylon. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Then if he always had "omnipotence," he did not "create" the material of which the uni- verse is made; he simply took a portion of his "omnipotence" and changed it to "universe"? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z In charging them to divulge his secret, he gave them a commission, which, notwithstanding his omnipotence, he himself dared not execute. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z The omnipotence of God is so vast that it is quite impossible for us to fathom it. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z The change in the revenge motive is especially manifest in the soliloquies and reflective passages, which unite in a fairly well connected argument that points the moral of the action, the omnipotence of God's providence. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Tropical lightning has not the calm omnipotence of cold when it walks lonely ways. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z She was made out of "man's side, out of his right side," and some more "omnipotence." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z She felt at first that it was impossible to reconcile omnipotence and perfect benevolence with this catastrophe. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z This showed his confidence in Jehovah's omnipotence and faithfulness, and he was enabled to leave all in His hands, feeling sure that all things would work together for his good. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z According to one class, God produces in men all their volitions and acts, both sinful and holy, by the direct exertion of his own omnipotence. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z What, omnipotence not able to protect his own disciples? The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z If there was nothing in the universe, omnipotence could do you no good. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z In seeing and saying this, however, one must never omit to observe and add that Lincoln's eye observed with solemn joy a precious moral meaning in the divine omnipotence. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Throughout the poem there is heard a deep undertone of solemnity as from one awakening to the apprehension of a great invisible Power,—'a concealed omnipotence,'—in the world. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Just walk up to him and squeeze the trigger and savor omnipotence for a moment. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z It was well that Longcluse was really in love—well, perhaps, that he did not appreciate the social omnipotence of money. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z I confess my utter in- ability to understand, or even to suspect, what the reverend gentleman means, when he says that God created the universe out of his "omnipotence." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence. Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre 2011-12-21T03:00:25.100Z Chopra: There is an omnipresence and omnipotence and omniscience to the cosmos, and it is very ordered, intelligent, and creative. Smart, Loving Universe or Mechanistic Physical Laws?: Interview 2011-12-20T15:46:01Z But were he to do this, it would imply no wisdom at all, but barely a stroke of omnipotence. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z At last the Divine Mercy, which works miracles when we least expect it, entered their hearts and gloriously demonstrated His omnipotence. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z Of course, omnipotence is an attribute, not an entity, not a raw material; and the idea that something can be made out of omnipotence—using that as the raw material—is infinitely absurd. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z This battle for the foundation of papal omnipotence within the church is connected with his championship of compulsory celibacy among the clergy and his attack on simony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Our faith may repose calmly on such a bed as Christ's omnipotence. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z And as God is everywhere the same in his omnipotence, it is with passions as with elements; no one of them is bad in itself, they are levers. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z But the thought that other gods could exist in the same universe with the one omnipotence was to him as monstrous as it was unthinkable. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Exactly how God changed "omnipotence" into matter is not stated. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Life has not given us infallibility, any more than it has given us omniscience, or omnipotence, or any other of those attributes which we call divine. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z As soon as the Pope with the assent of the Council—or indeed without it—has ruled his own omnipotence and infallibility, the deliverance of mankind is accomplished. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z Looking back on it now, I recognise the greatness of the tribute to my valour and omnipotence that he should have consented thus to drive us into the heart of the enemy's country. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Without he is strong in the consciousness of the omnipotence and supremacy of the Infinite. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Is he still omnipotent, and has he as much "omnipotence" now as he ever had? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z Seek the Mystic Jewel, the Philosopher’s Stone that gives the highest omnipotence; seek the Mystic Jewel, the rays of which reach to eternity and penetrate to the Godhead. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Commands and prohibitions are imposed upon the soul by that omnipotence which spiritualizes the universe and of which the soul is an immortal part. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z A victim full of fortitude and hope, and the spirit of triumph emanating from a reliance in the ultimate omnipotence of good.” The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z The endless immensity of everything was insufficient to express His omnipotence—fell far short of the unthinkable reality. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z I take it for granted that a being of infinite wisdom would not waste any force,—that he would not throw away any "omnipotence," and that, under ordinary circum- stances, he would husband his resources. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z “Then be blessed, Psyche, and share with me, Emeralda, your sister, the divine omnipotence!” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The Emperor, in spite of his omnipotence, is obliged to attach great value to the spirit of the masses upon whom he leans, and who constitute his real force. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z The divine foreknowledge is no more in the way of delegated choice than the divine omnipotence is in the way of delegated power. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z His head at all events was always in the light, his hand always resting on the omnipotence of the Almighty. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z According to the Bible, these worlds were not born,— they were created out of "nothing," or out of "omnipotence," which is much the same. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z We have only finite tests to apply to an infinite purpose, and by those tests neither the loyalty nor the omnipotence of the Almighty will be sustained. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z All oracles of light, all arms of power, Preparers of the way one face before; Their strength but part of His omnipotence, Their fault God-given lest man be deified, And pride in him dethrone humility. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z He was willing to sacrifice God's omnipotence to his humanity. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Although he could dissimulate and wait, Sulkowski sometimes avowed to himself, that he disliked the omnipotence of the Jesuit at the court, and that the Princess's influence also stood in his way. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z The knowledge of the omnipotence of capital in these days led to various proposals for turning it to account in the interests of Catholicism. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z To be so, is all one with omnipotence. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour 2011-09-12T02:00:24.913Z The only real limit is “the might of His glory,” the limitless omnipotence of the self-revealing God. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the united Trinity? Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z That, too, is a characteristic of parish omnipotence. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z To accomplish what Socialism is attempting to bring about, necessitates a revolution of all that now goes to make up human nature, and nothing short of omnipotence can do this. Why I am opposed to socialism 2011-08-30T02:00:37.547Z This Jesus, whom we had thought our brother, is after all, removed from us by the immeasurable distance which separates the feebleness of man from the omnipotence of God. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z For if the attitude imply rest, the locality—“at the right hand of God”—expresses not only the most intimate approach to, but also the wielding of the Divine omnipotence. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z In this Weismann finds the most convincing proof of the omnipotence of natural selection, and, I venture to add, for the omnipotence of his doctrine of determinants. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z Such bold oppression, says the grandson, can scarcely be shielded by the omnipotence of parliament. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z The original impulse out of which the classical tradition developed was the naïve faith of the Greek philosophers in the omnipotence of reasoning. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z This admiration for superior power and skill favours the idea of God's omnipotence. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z The electors or representatives of an assembly should obey their conscience alone: they should repel all pressure, as well that from committees arrogating omnipotence, as from the power itself. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z In the heart of mighty forests and by the shores of ever-rushing rivers, the littleness of man, contrasting with the grandeur of creation, speaks to his awakened soul of the omnipotence and goodness of God. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z If God be truth you libel him and his power, and publish the omnipotence of error. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z Most of what is greatest in man is called forth in response to the thwarting of his hopes by immutable natural obstacles; by the pretence of omnipotence, he becomes trivial and a little absurd. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Far less will you think you will fail if you are working with the omnipotence of the Lord God behind you. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z And if He be bound, is not His free will, His omnipotence limited? The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z On the one side, law, authority, armed force; on the other, lack of authority, of capital, and of arms; in a word, vague nothingness struggling against omnipotence. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z Such visual omnipotence, though, is starkly at odds with his personality, which is not grand at all. Kenneth Grange: half a century at the forefront of British design 2011-07-16T23:05:49Z "The omnipotence of the State constitutes the foundation of the strength of the bourgeoisie." Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z It is the power Which holds us futile from omnipotence. The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z When first, more used to the sensation of omnipotence, they look about them to see what their action may have precipitated, they will draw back in horror. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z He told himself that circumstances have a kind of omnipotence, and that any day they might alter affairs so radically that Marion might come to see things as he did. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z It must not be supposed, however, that this inert resignation of the tzar's subjects is merely the result of their profound reverence for whatever emanates from the omnipotence of their sovereign. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z One tends to credit him with a kind of omnipotence and infallibility against which he protests in vain. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z She knew Liana's respect for him, and his omnipotence over her pious disposition. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Without stepping beyond the analogy of that which is known, it is easy to people the cosmos with entities in ascending scale, until we reach something practicably indistinguishable from omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z And if it were so, his claims to omnipotence, infinity, eternity, the Godhead, would be preposterous. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z That special powers are often conferred upon mortals by some supernal beings whose recipients are prone to ascribe the gifts to omnipotence is obviously true; though their increased abilities are only bestowments by finite invisibles. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z And now, no reform shall ever happen, short of one by “the omnipotence of parliament,” which the great luminary of law is pleased to affirm, “can do anything except making a man a woman.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z A devout believer in the omnipotence of the Deity would doubtless wonder how chariots of iron could form serious obstacles to the attainment of any object by Judah, when the Lord was fighting for Judah. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z God's omnipotence remains unproved for the same reason, and because it is clearly absurd to argue that God exercises power where he may not be. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Did he not teach his omnipotence, his infinity, when he claimed to be one with the Father, and told his disciples that whoever had seen him, had seen the Father? In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z To fight is an exertion, is violence; the Deity in His omnipotence needs none. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z With more elevated views than Wierus, Scot denied the power of sorcerers, because it attributed to them an omnipotence which can only be the attribute of divine power. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The expressions 'repent,' 'grieve,' etc., could scarcely have been used if the book had been a revelation from a God who intended to convey to us an idea of his omnipotence and immutability. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z So that if no better argument can be found to prove God all-powerful, his omnipotence remains unproved. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Napoleon’s material omnipotence could not stand 863 against the moral force of the pope, a prisoner at Fontainebleau; and this he did not realize. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z It took eight years battling a degenerative heart disease and a 17-hour surgery for her to realize attempts at omnipotence are futile. Trainer Ritvo in Derby 3 years after transplant 2011-05-01T19:18:08Z It was then that the jealousy of the state opened its hundred eyes on the awful track of the strange omnipotence of the press. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The latter, confident of their omnipotence, joyfully seized this opportunity to increase its prestige, by proving that their power extended even to the punishment of a viceroy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z By careful reflection, too, we may perceive that omnipotence of another kind than power, winch can exert itself in all places, requires the existence of immensity. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z By this royal reform they completely isolated the monarchy, in the presumptuous pride of omnipotence, upon the ruins of the Church and the aristocracy, despite both the university and the parlement of Paris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z When he has shewed us this weakness, and we bewail it, he is ready to put forth his omnipotence to assist us. Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z Does not such a proposition detract from the omnipotence of God, in the same proportion in which it aims to exalt his omniscience?” A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z No one can fail," wrote the pope, "to be stirred by those numerous passages of the Psalms which proclaim so loudly the immense majesty of God, His omnipotence, His unutterable justice, His goodness and clemency . Pope Pius the Tenth 2011-04-26T02:00:21.967Z Ruthless destruction, even of her own choicest works, is the badge of her inexhaustible omnipotence: add but a touch of pity, and you fall back to the littleness and feebleness of man. A Syrup of the Bees 2011-04-23T02:00:04.300Z He united Sweden, now reconciled with Poland, and the Catholic and Protestant electors, disquieted by the edict of Restitution and the omnipotence of Wallenstein; and he aroused the United Provinces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z It smacks, rather, of federal omnipotence, which they thought to mix in only in very small and judicious quantities. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z And how wonderfully infinite Thy omnipotence, when Thou doest increase the little grain which moulders in the earth, into a hundredfold! The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] 2011-04-02T02:00:09.993Z Fortunately, in spite of our illusion of omnipotence, the distance from the stage was not truly Olympian. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Magnificent examples of every school, from the early Byzantine to the decadent style of the sixteenth century, combined to teach the present the omnipotence of the past. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z The ancients ascribed the existence of the universe to the fiat of omnipotence. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Both revolved around the pivot of patriarchal omnipotence. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z It is Thy unsearchable wisdom, this Thine unutterable goodness, mercy and omnipotence, which hath again this year visited our land. The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] 2011-04-02T02:00:09.993Z In this vein was Cleve Verney's contemplation—and even more virtuous and unworldly as he proceeded—in the elation of his new sense of omnipotence and glory. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z I might have defined right as God in action, or God as right in conjunction with omnipotence, intelligence, and love; but I had no need for exactness of terms. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The crushing conviction of the Divine omnipotence would have prevented them from rebelling with the alleged motive; or, after they had rebelled, it would have prevented them from struggling with the alleged hope. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z I, my love and omnipotence task’d, That the ruined and lost I might save! Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z And as we approach immortality, omniscience and omnipotence, will our lives still have meaning? 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal 2011-02-10T07:45:00Z One has a feeling of complete omnipotence, and that means a feeling of complete happiness. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Omniscience and omnipotence would be required for its wise administration. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z At last, when all Heaven was in confusion, the Divine omnipotence interfered. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z All through the play Shakespeare denies omnipotence to man’s self-made gods. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Having faith in drugs and hygienic drills, we lose faith in omnipotence, and give the healing power to matter instead of Spirit. The People's Idea of God Its Effect On Health And Christianity 2011-01-28T03:00:24.470Z If God's omnipotence made man sinful or good, why punish or reward him? The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z It pleased the invaders, in their omnipotence, to take possession of eleven rooms, and to establish their offices in them. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The Messiah, girt with omnipotence, rode out on this creating errand. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z A psychiatric assessment when he was young described his “vivid fantasy life, turning on the topics of omnipotence and power, through which he tries to compensate for his present shortcomings and frustrations.” The Peculiar Psyche of the American Assassin 2011-01-16T14:00:00Z The American "folks say" has a certain omnipotence, so long as it lasts, which arises from, not the spirit, but the character of the institutions themselves. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The omnipotence of Society means a dead level of uniformity. On Liberty 2011-01-12T03:00:34.363Z It is quite true that each one of these deities receives in his turn epithets which seem to attribute omnipotence to him and to make him the sole creator. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z It was the girl's first experience of the omnipotence of money; an experience which if it comes young enough will make a cynic out of a congenital optimist, which Joan was not. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z A touching saying, touching, like children's belief in the omnipotence of their parents! Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z I felt it throbbing in her the other day, when I told her my great dream of omnipotence. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z Therefore, O man, be careful that thou appropriate nothing to thyself, but restore all to the omnipotence of God, who himself is all that thou hast and art. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Christian thought has simply played fast and loose with these conceptions, speaking in one breath of divine omnipotence, and in the next alluding to the conflict between good and evil in language fraught with Manichæism. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z He would shrug his shoulders—and continue his own road—at the mere supposition that among the nations there are a few individuals in whose hands that force loses its omnipotence and becomes an instrument. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. How America will collapse (by 2025) 2010-12-06T20:01:00Z In his prime, he could play brilliantly in an imitable way even, at times, well enough to give himself the illusion of the omnipotence he craved to keep at bay the vulnerability he feared. Alex Higgins, snooker's anti-hero, dies aged 61 2010-07-24T23:21:00Z In this love, the loving soul sees the fulness of God's incomprehensible omnipotence, which comprehends in itself heaven and earth, the sea and the dry land, but cannot be comprehended by any thing. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He might well say that the God which Mr. Mill offers us, shorn of the attribute of omnipotence, is no God at all. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z For once Capello made no attempt to evade reality by snorting, shuffling his feet and cuffing away questions with his usual omnipotence. World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello is now at odds with his England players 2010-06-20T09:00:00Z He says that his book aims to help President Obama overcome “the beautiful lie” — “a series of assumptions about American omnipotence that, if not challenged, threatens to drive our foreign policy deeper into the red.” Book Review - The Icarus Syndrome - By Peter Beinart 2010-06-11T16:38:00Z Shareholders themselves must bear some responsibility for directors with delusions of omnipotence. Accountability? The men from the Pru don't know the meaning of the word 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z And out of this fulness of God's omnipotence, all the powers of angels, men, and all other creatures, proceed. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z By his own admission, this product of Harvard Law School and liberal South Side Chicago politics was mesmerized, along with everyone else, by the myth of industry omnipotence. Obama and BP at Risk Over Oil Spill 2010-06-03T04:01:00Z Yet Apple's omnipotence—and the lack of an obvious structural monopoly à la Windows that would invite regulation—leaves the Apple universe subject to the whims of its creators. Apple's Endless Expanding App Universe 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z For anti-Semites, “Jews represent mysterious, mythic and evil forces,” he said at a recent lecture, “an omnipotence playing a sinister role in world history.” David Bankier, Scholar of Holocaust, Dies at 63 2010-03-01T00:53:00Z A circumstance like this would seem to suggest some remarkable underlying motive as accounting for the wonderful omnipotence of swearing. A Cursory History of Swearing Now as great and high as God is in his omnipotence, even so low is he made by his love. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The dogmas of creation and providence, of divine omnipotence, chiefly exercised them; and they sought to assert for God an immediate action in the making and the keeping of the world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" He was the most influential minister of Charles V. His son, Anthony, who was born at Besan�on in 1517, inherited the paternal omnipotence. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster The dreadful pomp of offended omnipotence, I saw—I remember. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry They had been absorbed into the omnipotence of the church against which the gates of hell could not prevail. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Therefore from God's omnipotence, man learns to know his own nothingness, and to fear God, who delights in them only that “humble themselves under his mighty hand.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He would not picture her too clearly lest he should destroy the charm of this amazing omnipotence of longing. Sinister Street, vol. 1 I wish to emulate them in all their sovereign omnipotence! The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter We pray to God asking Him to help us by His omnipotence: we pray to the saints to help us by their intercession with God. Mary, Help of Christians And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers: Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year Even though you lose the horses, your gain is incalculable, for it consists in nothing less than being convinced of the wonderful nature and of the omnipotence of progress. The Progressionists, and Angela. Therefore, even as we cannot fathom, much less express in words, the omnipotence of God; so neither can we fathom with our thoughts the humility and lowliness of Christ. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Well, do you mean to tell me that it's good for a democracy, this sudden realization of their omnipotence? Sinister Street, vol. 1 It is, with our devotion to beauty and our faith in the divine omnipotence of love, the foundation of our peace of mind and the starting point of our enthusiasms. Underground Man If our age is no longer robust enough to acknowledge the effects of divine omnipotence and grace, it does not follow that they must be disavowed or denied. Mary, Help of Christians And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers: Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year It originated no doubt in sublime conceptions of divine omnipotence and ubiquity. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 And were not God to support him with the everlasting arm of his omnipotence, he would sink under the apprehensions of his own unworthiness. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z It is this which gives it omnipotence, complete power over everything, because there is no mixture of matter in it to limit it, to clog and hinder its activities. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy This fresh proof of the omnipotence of the Lord will serve to edify, comfort, console and delight all pious, and terrify the impious. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess And since omnipotence is as much a divine attribute as holiness, that God cannot punish, is as absurd a supposition as the former. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Ah, how little have you understood the omnipotence of that life which they inherit! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Among the vegetables, also, a man may discern many thousands of witnesses of the goodness and omnipotence of God. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z When He swears by Himself, He appeals, not to His omnipotence, but to His truthfulness. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews Accordingly, if we are to speak in human terms, we may consider God's wisdom the element which determines His various motive-powers,—omniscience, omnipotence, and goodness,—to tend toward the realization of His cosmic plan. Jewish Theology Bold, on creation’s outside walk, and view What was, and is, and more than e’er shall be; Commanding, with omnipotence of thought, Creations new in fancy’s field to rise! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes He will then grow his own power, and know how to harness for his own use the omnipotence of the soil. The Romance of the Reaper And, here, how ought we to magnify and adore the omnipotence and wisdom of God, who appointed the sun to be the light and ornament of the day, and the moon of the night. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The moral character of the Most High, rather than His natural attribute of omnipotence, became the resting-place of his spirit. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews According to the Bible, both the Creation and the order of the universe testify to divine omnipotence. Jewish Theology For they believed that God, in his omnipotence and sovereign goodness, taking sudden vengeance against those who insulted him, was quite capable of striking down the innocent with the guilty without meaning it. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels In which event if philosophy is not at fault the entity must be; the result being that it lacks the omnipotence claimed. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern For the whole world is to the omnipotence of God “as a drop of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The hours passed, horrible hours, and still in her loneliness and parching anxiety she cried for the life of her baby, cried the prayers of impotence to omnipotence. Seeds of Pine Philosophical inquiry into the ideas of the divine omnipotence and omniscience, however, discloses many difficulties. Jewish Theology He regarded suffering and death as the happy results of omnipotence and sovereign kindness. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels On this head, M. Dauban makes the very just remark: "A community in which there is no equilibrium of forces, becomes a sort of omnipotence for the strongest." Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty The third head of God's universal providence over all his creatures is, his omnipotence. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z And after that, trust my imperfect sense Which calls in question his omnipotence? Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 With the acceptance of the idea of divine omnipotence, these were united into a confederacy of divine forces under the dominion of the one God, the “Lord of Hosts.” Jewish Theology The new omnipotence of the Steam-engine is hewing asunder quite other mountains than the physical. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time The omnipotence in this case was not on the side of the beard, but of Madame Roland. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Surely no other than pure omnipotence, pure love and mercy, pure justice, truth, and wisdom. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z For since thus wondrously he passed, 'tis plain One single place two bodies did contain; And sure the same omnipotence as well Can make one body in more places dwell. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 His omniscience and omnipotence are bound up with His omnipresence and eternity. Jewish Theology That was Heinz's only fault, a belief in the omnipotence of higher authority. To Choke an Ocean It was part of the creed of his "cloth" that each of them was without blemish until his license was cancelled by the invisible omnipotence of the law. Command The knowledge of God consists in faith, which apprehends Christ, and in him, and through him, knows God, his omnipotence, love, mercy, righteousness, truth, wisdom; all which are God himself. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z With calm, detached omnipotence he inclined his grey-shot head a millimeter, while a faintly pained expression passed fleetingly across his face. The Ego Machine In it the eternal verities of the Jewish faith, God's omnipotence, omniscience, and moral government of the world, are conveyed in the historical narratives as an introduction to the law. Jewish Theology I will!—what more is necessary, and what omnipotence can interfere to destroy my eternal, almighty will? Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Perhaps he owed his brief political omnipotence, when the whole country flamed into battle, murder, and sudden death, to his peculiar mania for a spectacular chastity. Captain Macedoine's Daughter It is impossible, he thought, to harmonize the attributes of omnipotence and goodness in a divine agent, with the world as it is. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance And soon I saw her, still by that wan girl, Tossed on a watery omnipotence. Sea Poems Therefore the idea of God's omnipotence must be coupled with that of His omniscience. Jewish Theology A thought of the devil and of an omnipotence of the deity began to terrify me. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors His omnipotence was limited, else he could not have felt hunger, weariness, pain, etc. The Christian View of the Old Testament Only for this, because Night alienates from thee thy servants, didst thou sow in the regions of space the luminous balls, to proclaim thy omnipotence, thy return, in the times of thy absence. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. But when his will leans on a principle, when he is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The first attribute, therefore, with which we feeble mortals invest our Deity is omnipotence. Jewish Theology He celebrates the omnipotence of a virtuous soul. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 I have but one tutelary god—war, who makes giants of men, giving them the omnipotence of divinity. Sónnica Do you compare God's omnipotence to the wretched art of the clockmaker, who can't save his lifeless machinery from destruction? The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. If there be omnipotence in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The devil is his rival in the spiritual world and, according to the current doctrine, his equal in omniscience and omnipresence, and a close and terrible antagonist in the contest for omnipotence. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography It was the same omnipotence here that elsewhere Jupiter wielded. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal As said by Addison, "omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for its full attainment." Concerning Justice Such are the words of him who spake divinely, well knowing the omnipotence of Truth. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 For this first year—often the first months of it—marks the transition from love to conjugal affection, or witnesses a rupture which nothing less than omnipotence can ever mend. The Kempton-Wace Letters Pushed on by the influence of the lower population, it fell into the depths of anthropomorphism, asserting for the Virgin and the saints such attributes as omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition To limit his delegated power was to challenge their omnipotence, to renew the issue between the many and the few which had been decided at Pharsalus and Philippi. The History of Freedom In this way the omnipotence of God, in my opinion, is far more firmly established. The Philosophy of Spinoza Matter is a misstatement of Mind; it is a lie, claiming to talk and disclaim against Truth; idolatry, having other gods; evil, having presence and power over omnipotence! Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 I still place an unwavering reliance upon the omnipotence of truth. Thoughts on African Colonization Nevertheless, the red face of Garnet shone like that of a god sure of his omnipotence. The Grandee It would certainly require something more than even the omnipotence of an Act of Parliament to confer the character on some of the fraternity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. The omnipotence of God has therefore been actual from eternity, and in the same actuality will remain to eternity. The Philosophy of Spinoza He to whom the arm of the Lord is re- vealed; to whom divine Science unfolds omnipotence, that equips man with divine power while it shames human pride. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 Less than five minutes would have been necessary, if a full and unreserved concession of omnipotence had been made. When Ghost Meets Ghost One would have supposed it quite as easy to divest the Christ-figure of any inconvenient attributes as to eliminate omniscience and omnipotence from the God-idea. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' The vertigo of omnipotence, the disease of C�sars, shook her reason. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) The omnipotence of the one absolutely infinite Being is not shown by temperamental interruptions of the course of events; it is manifested in the immutable and necessary laws by which all things come to pass. The Philosophy of Spinoza It can, in short, do every thing that is not naturally impossible; and therefore some have not scrupled to call it's power, by a figure rather too bold, the omnipotence of parliament. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First The more prodigal God is discovered to be in lavish expenditures of omnipotence in the material universe, the more alert the soul becomes to look for and to detect overwhelming surprises of Divine Love. The Hound of Heaven It is true that there are passages in the Gospels which no more accord with Mr. Shaw's sociology than do omnipotence and omniscience with the theology of Mr. Wells. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' Rejoice because you have on your side the knowledge of the divine will in Christ, and his power and glorious might, and doubt not that his omnipotence will help you through. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent By the circumstance, that the sword goes out of the mouth of Christ, that destructive power is attributed to His mere word, He appears as partaking of divine omnipotence. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 In this secretion is manifested the skill and omnipotence of the Great Architect; for no machine of human invention supplies to itself, by its own operations, the necessary lubricating fluid. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Similar descriptions of the divine omnipotence, as opposed to unbelief and weak faith, are very numerous; e.g., iv. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 They were a sort of niggardly alms from omnipotence, not a generous endowment or a liberal compensation. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' One would expect a law, framed by omnipotence, to be invariable, not hampered by all kinds of difficulties that omnipotence, one might have thought, could have provided against. The Thread of Gold Poverty, not less than wealth, is encompassed with obstacles to conversion, which can be removed only by the omnipotence of divine grace. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 That is the knowledge of infinite mind’s omnipotence, and our ability to use the Christ-principle to meet every problem. Carmen Ariza Lord, Jehovah, of hosts, likewise serve to point out the omnipotence of God. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 We find omnipotence ascribed to the Holy Spirit in Luke i. The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit My soul, nevertheless, is full of religious devotion, and I know and love and adore God; but I only behold his omnipotence and admire his goodness in the works that have proceeded from his hands. Pepita Ximenez The Prophet directs attention to the omnipotence of God, in order to give a firm support to faith in the promise which exceeds all human conception. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 It is just those very people who boast that they do not believe in anything who believe most thoroughly in evil and its omnipotence and omnipresence.” Carmen Ariza By the wonderful manifestations of the Lord's omnipotence and mercy, on the occasion of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, a heartfelt love to Him had been awakened in the people. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 They made it seem as if His flesh was privileged, as if His omnipotence excused Him from the emotional experiences of humanity. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Surely omnipotence might have obviated the necessity of a crime against which civilised consciences revolt with unspeakable disgust. Bible Romances First Series Such an alliance was a de facto denial of the God of Israel, an insult to His omnipotence and grace. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 Ah, the Master taught the omnipotence of God, whose ways he declared as high above the blind grovelings of man as the dome of heaven swings above earth. Carmen Ariza Jacob has overcome omnipotence, and, in this one adversary, all others who might oppose him,—as he is expressly assured in ver. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 They are lost in the divine omniscience, omnipotence and transcendent love. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Not even omnipotence can make a clock strike less than one, and God himself must fail to make two things occupy the same space at the same time. Bible Romances First Series It is simply a mockery to ask us to believe that the slow progress of humanity must be attributed to omniscient omnipotence. Arrows of Freethought And to retain its omnipotence, that cause must be perfect––absolutely good––every whit pure, sound, and harmonious; for evil is demonstrably self-destructive. Carmen Ariza It points to all the obstacles which seem to render it impossible for the dominion to reach its goal, and represents them as such as shall be overcome by divine omnipotence. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 None but slaves Survived,—cold-blooded slaves, who did the work Of tyrannous omnipotence: whose souls No honest indignation ever urged To elevated daring, to one deed Which gross and sensual self did not pollute. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Hate that for you I could not open skies Where beauty lives of her own loveliness; That God would give me no omnipotence To purge and mould anew your soul's numb sense. Nirvana Days "As if His omnipotence could not have made them good in a minute." Opportunities But Jesus and the early Christians healed by true prayer––the prayer of affirmation, the prayer that denied reality to evil, and affirmed the omnipotence of God. Carmen Ariza There is no function of our General Convention that answers to the "omnipotence of Parliament." A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer A murderer heard His voice in Egypt, one whose gifts and arts Had raised him to nis eminence in power, Accomplice of omnipotence in crime, And confidant of the all-knowing one. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." It is manifest that, since there cannot be omnipotence without boundless liberty, omnipotence must possess completest freedom of will. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications At the present day the omnipotence of money produces almost analogous results. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study “On what authority except your own omniscience do you so confidently preach the non-existence of omnipotence?” The Crimson Tide A Novel The first conception is based upon the idea of the state's omnipotence as it was most sharply defined in the absolutist doctrines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens It might have been the Moon Fountain of Youth, or of omnipotence. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 My gods are they; in each the evil grows, The grandiose evil darkens over each And each black god, silent Under the iron skies, dreams Of his omnipotence—the taciturn black gods! Melomaniacs Upon this basis of slave labor they asserted their omnipotence in war and ability to continue the struggle without limit of time. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The attitude of omniscience and omnipotence has often been crudely stated by the Catholic hierarchy. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The public law especially developed upon an essentially Teutonic basis, and the original Teutonic ideas of right have never been overgrown with the later Roman conceptions of the state's omnipotence. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens More and more deeply did Mrs. Jackson feel the omnipotence of perfect, patient love, the only power that is sure of final victory, and to show this did she tell the story of Zeph. Hetty's Strange History And if such an exaction was ever laid by the omnipotence of custom on a minister of Christianity, it is such an exaction as ought never, never to be complied with. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. O let it stand with your omnipotence, For to remit the sorrowfuls offence. Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) Moreover, the theory that God adjusts himself slavishly to all the circumstances of His creatures, can hardly be reconciled with His dignity and omnipotence. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise In spite of the nominal omnipotence of the state a limit which it shall not over-step is specifically demanded and recognized in the most important fundamental laws. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens Can this alone absorb thy sight, As pages were not infinite,— Like the omnipotence which tasks Itself to furnish all that asks The soul it means to satiate? Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning If the Germans are triumphant, he added, force and falsehood will triumph with them, the State will acquire omnipotence, the individual sink into serfdom. England and Germany We shall remember that we are not under the law, with its impotence, but under grace with its omnipotence, working all in us. The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer Indeed, the omnipresence and omnipotence of it are not without divine significance. The Book of Khalid It would have been impossible to express more plainly the omnipotence at that moment of the conqueror of Solferino, and the fearful stigma which he was preparing for his memory. Pius IX. And His Time It has a kind of omnipotence ascribed to it, which belongs not to any other. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Nor is it any answer to say, that the existence of sin and suffering hereafter no more limits God's omnipotence than their existence here and now limits his omnipotence. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors She believed in the omnipotence of the human mind. The Rainbow Oh, why this Congress possesses not the omnipotence of an English Parliament? Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Pius IX., remarks M. de St. Albin, swayed by his deep emotion, had risen from his throne, his voice was like thunder, and his arm appeared to threaten as if possessed of omnipotence. Pius IX. And His Time Now the omnipotence of thoughts is not without reason. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character It is an unfinished temple whose gigantic dimensions, while exalting the imagination, proclaim the omnipotence of its builder. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers The world is full; A grand omnipotence must rule; But is there life that doth abide With mine own, loving, side by side? Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Still I have faith, although the Congress never will seize upon parliamentary omnipotence. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 But was it possible for the Roman court to yield in this and to revoke a dispensation, which involved the very substance of its spiritual omnipotence? A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) The omnipotence of Fate, in their opinion, was more shown in the destruction than the rewards of the good. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 The omnipotence of the bayonet may produce fear, but not bread. Madame Roland, Makers of History The diurnal swiftness of the orbs that move round the Earth he attributes to God’s omnipotence, that to material bodies ‘could add speed almost spiritual.’ The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Newspapers, street discussions, and public opinion, for the most part, encourage the belief in the omnipotence of money. Rural Problems of Today The poorest and most abject instrument, that is utterly imbecile for any purpose of good, seems sometimes endowed with almost the powers of omnipotence for mischief. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject I would not accept salvation at the hands of such futile omnipotence, such cruel mercy, such blood-stained justice. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The ancients did all this, but where are those haughty omnipotences now? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II This stupendous aggregation of suns testifies to the magnificence of the starry heavens, and to the omnipotence of the Creator. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' To dispute the omnipotence of the king was in his eyes the darkest of crimes. Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 This was to be confirmed later by the arrival of an engine-driver minus five fingers and some faith in the omnipotence of British arms. The Dop Doctor The fall of man is referred to the direct “omnipotence of God.” A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Another fundamental doctrine of Judaism is God's omnipotence. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The will of the soul, when it accords wholly with the divine, is no longer a naked will lacking its raiment, power, but brings with it an invincible omnipotence.” Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts In the invisible atmosphere which surrounds him, where other minds discern nothing but an immense blank, he beholds an assemblage of wonders, and a striking scene of divine wisdom and omnipotence. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Deafen'd by his own stir The rugged labourer Caught not till then a sense So glowing and so near Of his omnipotence. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Such is the doctrine which is advanced, in order to secure the omnipotence of God, and to exalt his sovereignty. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory The unity in the sense of uniqueness was shown by pointing out that dualism or pluralism is incompatible with omnipotence and perfection—attributes the possession of which by God was not considered to require proof. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Yet the difficulty lies merely in the absurd, though cunning, form of the question, which really amounts to asking, "Can the Almighty destroy His own omnipotence?" The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems Nothing could indicate more vividly the omnipotence of the o-omi; everything had been prepared so that his partisans could bury the body almost before it was cold. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Good Democrates, I come of a race that trusts in the omnipotence of God and does the right. A Victor of Salamis So we have understood the matter; and hence, it seems to us, that Christian divines should be more guarded in handling the attribute of omnipotence. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory In the first place it detracts from God's omnipotence to say he cannot do wrong. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Could we conceive of omnipotence not recognizing this law, the decrees and acts of such a being would not be necessarily right. A Manual of Moral Philosophy The Count de Bergueick, until then a stanch adherent of the Princess des Ursins, himself declared that that omnipotence had become insupportable, and he asked permission to return to Flanders, whence he had been summoned. Political Women, Vol. 2 There are some things impossible even to omnipotence, and one of them is the realisation of a love which has never known pain. The New Theology Besides, it is admitted by all the authors in question, that God sometimes interposes the arm of his omnipotence, in order to the production of holiness. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory If ye can give so much, what may not He Of whose omnipotence ye are but shadows Have in reserve in his eternities! The Woman Who Dared The importance of that latter fact had dimmed; the omnipotence of money had dwindled: for instance, any conceivable sum would be powerless to still that cry from within. Mountain Blood A Novel All that was said concerning the omnipotence of Madame des Ursins, of her empire over him, of her hopes, her designs, of that same corridor, of their private interviews, left him unmoved and indifferent. Political Women, Vol. 2 It must be persuaded or left alone, and even persuasion is a rash experiment, for it dislikes being persuaded of anything but of its own omnipotence. The Cult of Incompetence And even if such an impression could be a voluntary state, or a volition, properly so called, we should not be responsible for it, because it is produced by the omnipotence of God. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory His omnipotence is dependent upon the submission of His creatures. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath They've gained their reputation for omnipotence only on account of their robust common-sense, which leads them only to attack fortresses which are already half demolished.' The Explorer This power to penetrate and to identify was exercised with peculiar directness and plenitude by Walt Whitman, prophet of the omnipotence of man. The Enjoyment of Art To be fair I had of course to point out that we had tried to invent some slight barriers against the omnipotence of incompetence, which prevent it being absolutely supreme. The Cult of Incompetence We shall, in conclusion, add one more great name to the list of those who, from their zeal for the glory of the divine omnipotence, have really and clearly made God the author of sin. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory They are slyly at war with my omnipotence. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Thus he killed, with his own hand, Clitus, at a feast, because Clitus ventured to utter some truths which were in opposition to his notions of omnipotence. Ancient States and Empires Goodness is the work of omnipotence, an attribute of nature, as God creates it: holiness is something infinitely higher. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy God in His majesty is supreme and man cannot resist His omnipotence, nor thwart His decrees, nor foil His plans, nor render His omniscience fallible. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church And again, “At this rate, events would come forth uncaused from the womb of non-entity, to which omnipotence did not give birth, and which omniscience could not foresee.” A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory This is what we commonly designate as omnipotence and creation. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory “Public opinion, that mightiest of magicians, has within that time been educated up to this level and has said in its omnipotence: ‘Hospital, be!’ and, behold, the hospital is. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Let it not be supposed that in this we detract in any wise from the omnipotence of the Saviour’s grace. Memories of Bethany This omnipotence and prescience of God, I say, entirely abolish the dogma of free will. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church To suppose that Adam was the author of his own fate and fall, is to deny the omnipotence of God, and to rob him of his sovereignty. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Perhaps of all mankind a sailor has experienced most signal proofs of the omnipotence of God. The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys The teacher, a certain Mr. Guest, used to converse with his pupils in this wise: "Gurney, what is the difference between justification and sanctification?—Stephen, prove the omnipotence of God!" etc. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Jesus, I believe in Thy glory; I believe in Thine omnipotence; I believe in Thy power working within me. 'Jesus Himself' True, His omnipotence impels also the ungodly; but the resulting acts are evil because of man's evil nature. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church What then, on Calvin's own principles, becomes of the omnipotence of God? A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory He then showed the doctor, in answer to the latter's rather intolerant assertion of the omnipotence of the Bible, how conversant he was with the subject by quoting several Christian authors who thought differently. My Recollections of Lord Byron In such surroundings one's breast throbs and swells with the thought of Nature's omnipotence. Birds of the Rockies Even his poor attempt to bribe the English-speaking peoples to forget their spelling-books was a happy failure, and he still cherishes an illusion of omnipotence. American Sketches 1908 Now, if foreknowledge and omnipotence are conceded, it naturally follows as an irrefutable consequence that we have not been made by ourselves, nor that we live or do anything by ourselves, but through His omnipotence. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church How does he show, for example, that the first man was guilty and justly punishable for a transgression in which he succumbed to the divine omnipotence? A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Believing implicitly in the omnipotence of the Creator, could he not modestly fear that God, who had made his soul out of nothing, might cause it to return to nothing? My Recollections of Lord Byron You are the sun, you are beauty, you are omnipotence, you are wisdom, you are the highest judge! The Comedienne But this was clearly saving the goodness of God at the expense of his omnipotence. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative The very idea of God and omnipotence involves that free will is not, and cannot be, a power independent of God. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church The free actions of men are clearly reflected back in the mirror of the divine omniscience—they are not projected forward from the engine of the divine omnipotence. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory As for miracles, how could he think them absurd and impossible, since he admitted the omnipotence of God? My Recollections of Lord Byron On page 479 he quotes Lord Campbell as saying in Parliament on March 23, 1863, "Swelling with omnipotence, Mr. Lincoln and his colleagues dictate insurrection to the slaves of Alabama." Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor In England Franklin found few who recognized the distinction which the colonists had drawn; it was indeed incompatible with the universal belief in the omnipotence of the Imperial Parliament. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 For this it has been regarded as sufficient to ascribe to the world an underlying unity capable of bearing the predicates of perfection, omnipotence, and omniscience. The Approach to Philosophy In the first place, then, it is not a limitation of the divine omnipotence to say, that it cannot work contradictions. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Thy dread omnipotence I own; Spare, yet amend, the faults of youth. My Recollections of Lord Byron ‘What but omnipotence could make a young man nephew to a person to whom he was not in the slightest degree related?’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' You who know what passes in my heart—you whose glances chill me with horror—you, who promise me a miracle which only omnipotence can accomplish. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 The cosmological proof of God approaches him through the attribute of creative omnipotence. The Approach to Philosophy In regard to the doing of such things, or rather of such absurd and inconceivable nothings, omnipotence itself possesses no advantage over weakness. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory He was not to be beguiled by admissions of his theoretical omnipotence into affection for a wise and constitutional policy, which recognised popular rights. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography The omnipotence of God has been actual from eternity and will be actual from eternity. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics His triumph is attributed neither to natural, nor to supernatural power; but to moral superiority, evincing itself in His aspect, and exercising its omnipotence upon the soul and conscience. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 For the first time and in his inmost heart, Wilson doubted the omnipotence of his talented chief. The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective As sin is possible, then, though omnipotence be pledged to prevent its existence, it is clear that it cannot be regarded as a limitation of the divine power. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory I bow down beneath the load, Empurpled in a lone omnipotence. Nero Rightly considered, to guide the falling of a leaf from a tree is an office as worthy of omnipotence, as the creation of a world. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' |
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