In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
