Saint Stephen Quote

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

James Irwin

• Power

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Franz Schubert

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Virgil

• Man
• Desire

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aeschylus

• Death
• Desire

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

William Shakespeare

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

• Power
• Anger

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

George Eliot

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Jean Racine

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus

• Man
• Prayer
• Power

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Kahlil Gibran

• God

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Desire
• Children

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

• Power

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Napoleon Hill

• Desire
• Power

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.

Gustave Flaubert

• Power
• Art
• Artist

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Alphonse de Lamartine

• Desire

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas Kempis

• Learning

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Anton Chekhov

• Power

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

James Prescott Joule

• Power

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Victor Hugo

• World
• Desire