Dominion Quotes - Page 2

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.