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No, I am not powerful nor do I wish to be, for it is God using my weakness that makes me potent and I would never wish to surrender that. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. — Lord Acton

The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands; the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision. — Charli Frisky

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception — Brandon Sanderson

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority. — Prince Charles

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. — Peter Marshall

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority — Ray Palla

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world. — Louise L. Hay

For that was mom's trump card: she was the mother, and so possessed a mysterious and unquestioned authority. Dad was the boss, but Mom was the power. — Joyce Carol Oates

19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. — Anonymous

Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry. — Harold Bloom

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven. — Bill Cosby

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power. — Chuck Smith

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God. — L. Tom Perry

God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness — Sunday Adelaja

To a Christian, power and authority are nothing but crosses. — Tikhon Of Zadonsk

People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression ... — John Geddes

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous. — James Dobson

Jesus has the authority and power to re-create not just refurbish us. — Jonah Books

It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity. — Sunday Adelaja

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow. — Criss Jami

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. — Thomas Szasz

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end. — Joshua

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast. — Plutarch

Believers infiltrate the enemy's territory with knowledge and power. — Sherry K. White

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. — Jean Vanier

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely. — Lech Walesa

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other. — Haile Selassie

The Word of God gives power, authority and abundant life to a man. — Sunday Adelaja

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice. — Plutarch

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. — Francis Bacon

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct. — Idries Shah

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. — Joyce Cary

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him — Ali Ibn Abi Talib