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  • When Newton had proved that the same natural laws applied everywhere in the universe, one might think that he thereby undermined people's faith in God's omnipotence.†   (source)
  • Wennerström isn't omnipotent.†   (source)
  • She had tried to get permission through Don Apolinar Moscote, but he had lost all authority in the face of the military omnipotence.†   (source)
  • A cloud of unknowing, an omnipotent little person.†   (source)
  • of missions to sixty and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.†   (source)
  • Omnipotent and eternal God, the everlasting Salvation of those who believe, hear us on behalf of Thy servant Mary Lou, for whom we beg the aid of Thy pitying mercy, that with her bodily health restored, she may give thanks to Thee in Thy church.†   (source)
  • Newspapers and magazines are gushing about the young president, calling Kennedy "omniscient" and "omnipotent."†   (source)
  • The historian will search for those o, cult causes that induced her to exalt an individual who has neither that innocence of sensibility which incites it to love, nor that omnipotence of intellect which commands us to admire.†   (source)
  • Omnipotent God, and most merciful Father, bow down 'Mine ear to our request, and let Thine eye look upon the miseries of Thy people.†   (source)
  • She wondered how many times his hands in rubber gloves, impersonal and omnipotent, had set some child on its feet.†   (source)
  • It's not as omnipotent as it once seemed.†   (source)
  • Although he was currently a member of the omnipotent Forty Committee, he had been with the CIA since its origins in the OSS.†   (source)
  • The Lord was wise and omnipotent, but He was also a vengeful God who let no bad deed go unpunished.†   (source)
  • Ah, but I'm more than that, I'm blessed, I'm omnipotent, I'm baked in sap.†   (source)
  • He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.†   (source)
  • But riding high above all secular controversies was a faith in One who was the Creator, the Giver of Life, the Omnipotent.†   (source)
  • After all, God, being omnipotent, could cause anything He liked.†   (source)
  • If the series of events had been planned by an omnipotent and unforgiving enemy it could not have been more effective.†   (source)
  • They are not omnipotent.†   (source)
  • He had to replace God with a sense of the omnipotence of business.†   (source)
  • I do not know which we resent more— Karellen's omnipotence, or his secrecy.†   (source)
  • He remembered the magic elation that had filled him in the night, and his omnipotence at dawn when nature obeyed his will.†   (source)
  • ability God has given me, is now to separate us; ....but be their present decision what itmay, I know that the time is not far distant when they will recognize my action today as wise and just; and, armed with honest convictions of my duty, I shall calmly await the results, believing in the utterance of a great American that "truth is omnipotent, and public justice certain."†   (source)
  • Or did an omnipotent God create the basketballs out of the vacuum of space?   (source)
    omnipotent = all powerful
  • One girl, Mary Lou Finney, said the most peculiar things, like out of the blue she would say, "Omnipotent!" or "Beef brain!"   (source)
    omnipotent = word meaning: all powerful
  • She was frozen, and Charles Wallace was being devoured by IT, and her omnipotent father was doing nothing.   (source)
    omnipotent = all powerful
  • I say, Omnipotent!   (source)
  • Praise to Thee in Thy bounteous and omnipotent love; O praise.   (source)
  • Note to self: Look up the words progenitive, omnipotent, and mores.†   (source)
  • You are confused because the Bible describes God as an omnipotent and benevolent deity.†   (source)
  • It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.†   (source)
  • Behold science-the new God of endless miracles, omnipotent and benevolent!†   (source)
  • Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.†   (source)
  • They want an omnipotent power over existence; instead, they lose the power of their consciousness.†   (source)
  • God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey.†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed as having "a vivid fantasy life, turning around the topics of omnipotence and power, through which he tries to compensate for his present shortcomings and frustrations."†   (source)
  • Phaedrus' concept of changing Quality as reality, a reality so omnipotent that whole governments must change to keep up with it, is something that in a wordless way we have always unanimously believed in all along.†   (source)
  • Believing there is no god means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future.†   (source)
  • The supernatural power that a mystic dreads, the unknowable spirit he worships, the consciousness he considers omnipotent is-yours.†   (source)
  • A mystic is driven by the urge to impress, to cheat, to flatter, to deceive, to force that omnipotent consciousness of others.†   (source)
  • So many men seeking favors had been afraid of him that he now acted as if his anger were a solution to everything, as if his anger were omnipotent, as if all he had to do was to get angry.†   (source)
  • He believes that nature is ruled by demons who possess an omnipotent power and that reality is their fluid plaything, where they can turn his bowl of meal into a snake and his wife into a beetle at any moment, where the A he has never discovered can be any non-A they choose, where the only knowledge he possesses is that he must not attempt to know.†   (source)
  • There was the goal of all those con men of library and classroom, who sold their revelations as reason, their "instincts" as science, their cravings as knowledge, the goal of all the savages of the non-objective, the non-absolute, the relative, the tentative, the probable-the savages who, seeing a farmer gather a harvest, can consider it only as a mystic phenomenon unbound by the law of causality and created by the farmer's omnipotent whim, who then proceed to seize the farmer, to chain him, to deprive him of tools, of seeds, of water, of soil, to push him out on a barren rock and to command: "Now grow a harvest and feed us!"†   (source)
  • doctrines of the Middle Ages, which kept men huddling on the mud floors of their hovels, in terror that the devil might steal the soup they had worked eighteen hours to earn-to the seedy little smiling professor who assures you that your brain has no capacity to think, that you have no means of perception and must blindly obey the omnipotent will of that supernatural force: Society-all of it is the same performance for the same and only purpose: to reduce you to the kind of pulp that has surrendered the validity of its consciousness.†   (source)
  • Only a brute, a fool or an evader can agree to exist on such terms or agree to give his fellow men a blank check on his life and his mind, to accept the belief that others have the right to dispose of his person at their whim, that the will of the majority is omnipotent, that the physical force of muscles and numbers is a substitute for justice, reality and truth.†   (source)
  • You propose to establish a social order based on the following tenets: that you're incompetent to run your own life, but competent to run the lives of others-that you're unfit to exist in freedom, but fit to become an omnipotent ruler-that you're unable to earn your living by the use of your own intelligence, but able to judge politicians and to vote them into jobs of total power over arts you have never seen, over sciences you have never studied, over achievements of which you have no knowledge, over the gigantic industries where you, by your own definition of your capacity, would be unable successfully to fill the job of assistant greaser.†   (source)
  • They never spoke of what they wished they might do in the future, they never wondered whether some mysterious omnipotence had favored them with some unknowable talent to achieve the things they wantedthey spoke of what they would do.†   (source)
  • and nights-while he drove down deserted highways, across a country collapsing into chaos, while he developed a monomaniac's cunning for obtaining illegal purchases of gas, while he snatched random hours of restless sleep, in obscure motels, under assumed names...I'm Robert Stadler-he had thought, his mind repeating it as a formula of omnipotence...To seize control-he had thought, speeding against the futile traffic lights of half-abandoned towns-speeding on the vibrating steel of the Taggart Bridge across the Mississippispeeding past the occasional ruins of farms in the empty stretches of Iowa...I'll show them-he had thought-let them pursue, they won't stop me this time...He had though†   (source)
  • But what should such a king, himself almost omnipotent, desire?†   (source)
  • The divine being is a revelation of the omnipotent Self, which dwells within us all.†   (source)
  • When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science.†   (source)
  • Yesterday he dictated this to me: The creation of man whom God in His foreknowledge knew doomed to sin was the awful index of God's omnipotence.†   (source)
  • Through a cold stupor, Keating thought of the clients laughing in his face; he heard the thin, omnipotent voice of Ellsworth Toohey calling his attention to the opportunities open to him in the field of plumbing.†   (source)
  • Somehow the very sound of the two words with their evocation secret and irrevocable and something of a hidden and unsleeping and omnipotent eye watching the doings of men, began to reassure Grimm's men in their own makebelieve.†   (source)
  • Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.†   (source)
  • He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.†   (source)
  • But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts.†   (source)
  • The fantasy is a reassurance—a promise that the peace of Paradise, which was known first within the mother womb, is not to be lost; that it supports the present and stands in the future as well as in the past (is omega as well as alpha); that though omnipotence may seem to be endangered by the threshold passages and life awakenings, protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world.†   (source)
  • "I shall end by believing in the omnipotence of the ghost," he said.†   (source)
  • A secret—insubstantial and omnipotent.†   (source)
  • These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being.†   (source)
  • To Gopher Prairie the tracks were eternal verities, and boards of railroad directors an omnipotence.†   (source)
  • However, young people could not be quite old people, he concluded, and custom was omnipotent.†   (source)
  • Pray, dearest, dearest father; pray for His omnipotent support.†   (source)
  • Not in the riches of omnipotence is the chief glory of God; but in self-denying, suffering love!†   (source)
  • I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent.†   (source)
  • Still, great as was this omnipotence, a murmur arose.†   (source)
  • Are we agreed that Life is a force which has made innumerable experiments in organizing itself; that the mammoth and the man, the mouse and the megatherium, the flies and the fleas and the Fathers of the Church, are all more or less successful attempts to build up that raw force into higher and higher individuals, the ideal individual being omnipotent, omniscient, infallible, and withal completely, unilludedly self-conscious: in short, a god?†   (source)
  • He remembered how passionately he had prayed for the miracle which his uncle had assured him was possible to omnipotence.†   (source)
  • And through the several torments of the senses the immortal soul is tortured eternally in its very essence amid the leagues upon leagues of glowing fires kindled in the abyss by the offended majesty of the Omnipotent God and fanned into everlasting and ever-increasing fury by the breath of the anger of the God-head.†   (source)
  • They would seek for something else—some malign, treacherous, deceiving power which, in the face of God's omniscience and omnipotence, still beguiles and betrays—and find it eventually in the error and perverseness of the human heart, which God has made, yet which He does not control, because He does not want to control it.†   (source)
  • Above, about, within it all was the rumble and roar, the hurry and toss of thousands of human beings as hot for pleasure as himself, and on every side of him towered the glaring affirmation of the omnipotence of wealth.†   (source)
  • Her true mistress, whose decisions it had been impossible to foresee, from whose stratagems it had been so hard to escape, of whose good nature it had been so easy to take advantage, her sovereign, her mysterious and omnipotent monarch was no more.†   (source)
  • Then the sly author of the immortal Chapter on Christianity: "How shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world, to those evidences [miracles] which were presented by Omnipotence?†   (source)
  • It was as if the Omnipotence whose mercy they confessed had needed their humble testimony on earth for a while longer, and had looked down to make a sign, "Thou shalt not!" to the ocean.†   (source)
  • But the strange religion—the narrowing down of the world to the soil of Utah, the intimations of prophets on earth who had direct converse with God, the austere self-conscious omnipotence of this old bishop—these were matters that Shefford felt he must understand better, and see more favorably, if he were not to consider them impossible.†   (source)
  • I suppose that they are reasonable words; it must be extraordinarily reasonable for her, if she can say that she believes in an Omnipotent Deity.†   (source)
  • They reason thus because they are unable to comprehend that even venial sin is of such a foul and hideous nature that even if the omnipotent Creator could end all the evil and misery in the world, the wars, the diseases, the robberies, the crimes, the deaths, the murders, on condition that he allowed a single venial sin to pass unpunished, a single venial sin, a lie, an angry look, a moment of wilful sloth, He, the great omnipotent God could not do so because sin, be it in thought or deed, is a transgression of His law and God would not be God if He did not punish the transgressor.†   (source)
  • Supporting his arguments with all kinds of examples and anecdotes from the books and loose pages that lay on the table before him, even reciting poetry a few times, Dr. Krokowski discussed love's frightening forms—bizarre, agonized, eerie mutations of its symptoms and omnipotence.†   (source)
  • She had remarked to Mrs Colonel Luton, who was chaperoning her, that she believed in an Omnipotent Deity.†   (source)
  • No longer the lowly Lamb of God, no longer the meek Jesus of Nazareth, no longer the Man of Sorrows, no longer the Good Shepherd, He is seen now coming upon the clouds, in great power and majesty, attended by nine choirs of angels, angels and archangels, principalities, powers and virtues, thrones and dominations, cherubim and seraphim, God Omnipotent, God Everlasting.†   (source)
  • I am very tired of it all.... For, I daresay, all this may sound romantic, but it is tiring, tiring, tiring to have been in the midst of it; to have taken the tickets; to have caught the trains; to have chosen the cabins; to have consulted the purser and the stewards as to diet for the quiescent patient who did nothing but announce her belief in an Omnipotent Deity.†   (source)
  • She spoke and wept with that gentleness which makes such words and tears omnipotent over a loving-hearted man.†   (source)
  • But, Uncle Pumblechook, who was omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn't hear the word, wouldn't hear of the subject, imperiously waved it all away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water.†   (source)
  • The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth; announcing the presence of the soul; the omnipotence of the will: and so establishing the standard of good and ill, of success and falsehood.†   (source)
  • The sentiment of deep awe with which I habitually regarded the elevated character, the majestic wisdom, the apparent omnipresence and omnipotence of Wilson, added to a feeling of even terror, with which certain other traits in his nature and assumptions inspired me, had operated, hitherto, to impress me with an idea of my own utter weakness and helplessness, and to suggest an implicit, although bitterly reluctant submission to his arbitrary will.†   (source)
  • Chance—or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door—led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy.†   (source)
  • I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower — breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.†   (source)
  • "I know not that their delivery is at hand," returned the doubting David; "the leader of these savages is possessed of an evil spirit that no power short of Omnipotence can tame.†   (source)
  • This political omnipotence of the majority in the United States doubtless augments the influence which public opinion would obtain without it over the mind of each member of the community; but the foundations of that influence do not rest upon it.†   (source)
  • Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute.†   (source)
  • Thus exhorted, Cedric sallied forth upon his expedition; and it was not long ere he had occasion to try the force of that spell which his Jester had recommended as omnipotent.†   (source)
  • The omnipotence of the majority appears to me to present such extreme perils to the American Republics that the dangerous measure which is used to repress it seems to be more advantageous than prejudicial.†   (source)
  • So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation's final day.†   (source)
  • But how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness and sinfulness?†   (source)
  • Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing; human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion, and God alone can be omnipotent, because His wisdom and His justice are always equal to His power.†   (source)
  • The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear, omnipotent to its own ends, and is directly related, there amid essences and billets-doux, to Himalaya mountain-chains[509] and the axis of the globe.†   (source)
  • We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.†   (source)
  • Amongst the greater part of modern nations, the government, whatever may be its origin, its constitution, or its name, has become almost omnipotent, and private persons are falling, more and more, into the lowest stage of weakness and dependence.†   (source)
  • It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.†   (source)
  • But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words "I SHALL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT," I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.†   (source)
  • I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year; for these moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which asks nothing of duration, but sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done, without time.†   (source)
  • But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy.†   (source)
  • Appendix M The most esteemed authors who have written upon the English Constitution agree with each other in establishing the omnipotence of the Parliament.†   (source)
  • At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle.†   (source)
  • The omnipotence of the majority, and the rapid as well as absolute manner in which its decisions are executed in the United States, has not only the effect of rendering the law unstable, but it exercises the same influence upon the execution of the law and the conduct of the public administration.†   (source)
  • The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence—and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise.†   (source)
  • The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens an†   (source)
  • behold omnipotence—women.†   (source)
  • It can, in short, do everything that is not naturally impossible to be done; and, therefore some have not scrupled to call its power, by a figure rather too bold, the omnipotence of Parliament.†   (source)
  • But the bird has a voice, and with plaintive cries will make known her fear; but the fear of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted in him; he had no voice, save that choking respiration through his spiracle, and this made the sight of him unspeakably pitiable; while still, in his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied.†   (source)
  • The unity, the ubiquity, the omnipotence of the supreme power, and the uniformity of its rules, constitute the principal characteristics of all the political systems which have been put forward in our age.†   (source)
  • Amongst them all, the idea of intermediate powers is weakened and obliterated: the idea of rights inherent in certain individuals is rapidly disappearing from the minds of men; the idea of the omnipotence and sole authority of society at large rises to fill its place.†   (source)
  • But Zeus gives men more excellence or less as he desires, being omnipotent.†   (source)
  • After a pause, the grey-eyed goddess Athena said: "O Zeus, highest and mightiest, father of us all, we are well aware of your omnipotence, but all the same we mourn the Akhaian spearmen if they are now to meet hard fate and die.†   (source)
  • THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED: Alleluia, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!†   (source)
  • Four omnipotent sovereigns.†   (source)
  • A choir of six hundred voices, conducted by Vincent O'brien, sings the chorus from Handel's Messiah alleluia for the lord god omnipotent reigneth, accompanied on the organ by Joseph Glynn†   (source)
  • other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipotent nature's incorrupted benefaction.†   (source)
  • This is the most omnipotent villain that ever cried Stand!†   (source)
  • The Right Of Gods Soveraignty Is Derived From His Omnipotence†   (source)
  • But hearken, lordings, one word, I you pray,
    That all the sovreign actes, dare I say,
    Of victories in the Old Testament,
    Through very God that is omnipotent,
    Were done in abstinence and in prayere:
    Look in the Bible, and there ye may it lear.†   (source)
  • O omnipotent love!†   (source)
  • "I swear by God Omnipotent," exclaimed Don Quixote at this, "your highness has hit the point; and that some vile illusion must have come before this sinner of a Sancho, that made him see what it would have been impossible to see by any other means than enchantments; for I know well enough, from the poor fellow's goodness and harmlessness, that he is incapable of bearing false witness against anybody."†   (source)
  • How mercifully can the omnipotent Power comfort his creatures, even in the midst of their greatest calamities?†   (source)
  • Better these than worse,
    By my advice; since fate inevitable
    Subdues us, and omnipotent decree,
    The Victor's will.†   (source)
  • O Zeus, reveal thy might, King, if thou'rt named aright Omnipotent, all-seeing, as of old; For Laius is forgot; His weird, men heed it not; Apollo is forsook and faith grows cold.†   (source)
  • And did not his will assure the Necessity of mans will, and consequently of all that on mans will dependeth, the Liberty of men would be a contradiction, and impediment to the omnipotence and Liberty of God.†   (source)
  • and that he ought to communicate counsels with them, and give them some share of the spoil till his success makes him need or fear them less, and then it will be easily taken out of their hands; another proposes the hiring the Germans and the securing the Switzers by pensions; another proposes the gaining the Emperor by money, which is omnipotent with him; another proposes a peace with the King of Arragon, and, in order to cement it, the yielding up the King of Navarre's pretensions; another thinks that the Prince of Castile is to be wrought on by the hope of an alliance, and that some of his courtiers are to be gained to the French faction by pensions.†   (source)
  • Not sleep that lays all else beneath its spell, Nor moons that never tire: untouched by Time, Throned in the dazzling light That crowns Olympus' height, Thou reignest King, omnipotent, sublime.†   (source)
  • Except what sickness forced from me, I do not remember I had one thought of lifting up my heart towards God, but rather had a certain stupidity of soul, not having the least sense or fear of the Omnipotent Being when in distress, nor of gratitude to him for his deliverances.†   (source)
  • So Satan spake; and him Beelzebub
    Thus answered:—"Leader of those armies bright
    Which, but th' Omnipotent, none could have foiled!†   (source)
  • For, though the Pope had sitten them beside,
    I would not spare them at their owen board,
    For, by my troth, I quit* them word for word *repaid
    As help me very God omnipotent,
    Though I right now should make my testament
    I owe them not a word, that is not quit* *repaid
    I brought it so aboute by my wit,
    That they must give it up, as for the best
    Or elles had we never been in rest.†   (source)
  • But a man may here aske, whether it bee not as necessary to Salvation, to beleeve, that God is Omnipotent; Creator of the world; that Jesus Christ is risen; and that all men else shall rise again from the dead at the last day; as to beleeve, that Jesus Is The Christ.†   (source)
  • to Heaven, and pointing thereto, told him "that the great Maker of Heaven and Earth lived there; that as his infinite power fashioned this world out of a confused chaos, and made it in that beautiful frame which we behold; so he governs and preserves it by his unbounded knowledge, sovereign greatness and peculiar providence; that he was omnipotent, could do every thing for us, give every thing to us, and take every thing away from us; that he was a rewarder and punisher of good, and evil actions; that there was nothing but what he knew, no thoughts so secret, but what he could bring to light;" and thus, by degrees, I opened his eyes, and described to him "the manner of the creation of th†   (source)
  • So spake the Omnipotent, and with his words
    All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all.†   (source)
  • Him the Almighty Power
    Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky,
    With hideous ruin and combustion, down
    To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
    In adamantine chains and penal fire,
    Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.†   (source)
  • For it is not enough to say, God can transubstantiate the Bread into Christs Body: For the Gentiles also held God to be Omnipotent; and might upon that ground no lesse excuse their Idolatry, by pretending, as well as others, as transubstantiation of their Wood, and Stone into God Almighty.†   (source)
  • I had, it seems, one day, been talking to him of the omnipotent power of God, and his infinite abhorrence of sin, insomuch that the Scriptures styled him a consuming fire to all the workers of iniquity; and that it was in his power, whenever he pleased, to destroy all the world in a moment, the greater part of which are continually offending him.†   (source)
  • For who is there that does not see, that they who beleeve Jesus to be the Son of the God of Israel, and that the Israelites had for God the Omnipotent Creator of all things, doe therein also beleeve, that God is the Omnipotent Creator of all things?†   (source)
  • None left but by submission; and that word
    Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame
    Among the Spirits beneath, whom I seduced
    With other promises and other vaunts
    Than to submit, boasting I could subdue
    The Omnipotent.†   (source)
  • But the acknowledging of one God Eternall, Infinite, and Omnipotent, may more easily be derived, from the desire men have to know the causes of naturall bodies, and their severall vertues, and operations; than from the feare of what was to befall them in time to come.†   (source)
  • Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate; yet so
    Perhaps thou shalt not die, perhaps the fact
    Is not so heinous now, foretasted fruit,
    Profaned first by the serpent, by him first
    Made common, and unhallowed, ere our taste;
    Nor yet on him found deadly; yet he lives;
    Lives, as thou saidst, and gains to live, as Man,
    Higher degree of life; inducement strong
    To us, as likely tasting to attain
    Proportional ascent; which cannot be
    But to be Gods, or Angels, demi-Gods.†   (source)
  • Immateriall, could never enter into the mind of any man by nature; because, though men may put together words of contradictory signification, as Spirit, and Incorporeall; yet they can never have the imagination of any thing answering to them: And therefore, men that by their own meditation, arrive to the acknowledgement of one Infinite, Omnipotent, and Eternall God, choose rather to confesse he is Incomprehensible, and above their understanding; than to define his Nature By Spirit Incorporeall, and then Confesse their definition to be unintelligible: or if they give him such a title, it is not Dogmatically, with intention to make the Divine Nature understood; but Piously, to honour him wit†   (source)
  • Know then, that, after Lucifer from Heaven
    (So call him, brighter once amidst the host
    Of Angels, than that star the stars among,)
    Fell with his flaming legions through the deep
    Into his place, and the great Son returned
    Victorious with his Saints, the Omnipotent
    Eternal Father from his throne beheld
    Their multitude, and to his Son thus spake.†   (source)
  • not to think how vain
    Against the Omnipotent to rise in arms;
    Who out of smallest things could, without end,
    Have raised incessant armies to defeat
    Thy folly; or with solitary hand
    Reaching beyond all limit, at one blow,
    Unaided, could have finished thee, and whelmed
    Thy legions under darkness: But thou seest
    All are not of thy train; there be, who faith
    Prefer, and piety to God, though then
    To thee not visible, when I alone
    Seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent
    From all: My sect thou seest; now learn too late
    How few sometimes may know, when thousands err.†   (source)
  • To those therefore whose Power is irresistible, the dominion of all men adhaereth naturally by their excellence of Power; and consequently it is from that Power, that the Kingdome over men, and the Right of afflicting men at his pleasure, belongeth Naturally to God Almighty; not as Creator, and Gracious; but as Omnipotent.†   (source)
  • of fierce encountering Angels fought
    On either side, the least of whom could wield
    These elements, and arm him with the force
    Of all their regions: How much more of power
    Army against army numberless to raise
    Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb,
    Though not destroy, their happy native seat;
    Had not the Eternal King Omnipotent,
    From his strong hold of Heaven, high over-ruled
    And limited their might; though numbered such
    As each divided legion might have seemed
    A numerous host; in strength each armed hand
    A legion; led in fight, yet leader seemed
    Each warriour single as in chief, expert
    When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway
    Of battle, open when, an†   (source)
  • But then he shall be King, not onely as God, in which sense he is King already, and ever shall be, of all the Earth, in vertue of his omnipotence; but also peculiarly of his own Elect, by vertue of the pact they make with him in their Baptisme.†   (source)
  • Thee, Father, first they sung Omnipotent,
    Immutable, Immortal, Infinite,
    Eternal King; the Author of all being,
    Fountain of light, thyself invisible
    Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit'st
    Throned inaccessible, but when thou shadest
    The full blaze of thy beams, and, through a cloud
    Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine,
    Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear,
    Yet dazzle Heaven, that brightest Seraphim
    Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes.†   (source)
  • and upright with front serene
    Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence
    Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven,
    But grateful to acknowledge whence his good
    Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes
    Directed in devotion, to adore
    And worship God Supreme, who made him chief
    Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent
    Eternal Father (for where is not he
    Present?) thus to his Son audibly spake.†   (source)
  • Thus, at their shady lodge arrived, both stood,
    Both turned, and under open sky adored
    The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven,
    Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe,
    And starry pole: Thou also madest the night,
    Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day,
    Which we, in our appointed work employed,
    Have finished, happy in our mutual help
    And mutual love, the crown of all our bliss
    Ordained by thee; and this delicious place
    For us too large, where thy abundance wants
    Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.†   (source)
  • Effulgence of my glory, Son beloved,
    Son, in whose face invisible is beheld
    Visibly, what by Deity I am;
    And in whose hand what by decree I do,
    Second Omnipotence!†   (source)
  • So sang the Hierarchies: Mean while the Son
    On his great expedition now appeared,
    Girt with Omnipotence, with radiance crowned
    Of Majesty Divine; sapience and love
    Immense, and all his Father in him shone.†   (source)
  • to receive
    Thy merited reward, the first assay
    Of this right hand provoked, since first that tongue,
    Inspired with contradiction, durst oppose
    A third part of the Gods, in synod met
    Their deities to assert; who, while they feel
    Vigour divine within them, can allow
    Omnipotence to none.†   (source)
  • The swiftness of those circles attribute,
    Though numberless, to his Omnipotence,
    That to corporeal substances could add
    Speed almost spiritual: Me thou thinkest not slow,
    Who since the morning-hour set out from Heaven
    Where God resides, and ere mid-day arrived
    In Eden; distance inexpressible
    By numbers that have name.†   (source)
  • Son, thou in whom my glory I behold
    In full resplendence, Heir of all my might,
    Nearly it now concerns us to be sure
    Of our Omnipotence, and with what arms
    We mean to hold what anciently we claim
    Of deity or empire: Such a foe
    Is rising, who intends to erect his throne
    Equal to ours, throughout the spacious north;
    Nor so content, hath in his thought to try
    In battle, what our power is, or our right.†   (source)
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