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1 " Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a " city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven" and who believed that " nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. "
2 " Etatism, as a theory, is the doctrine of the omnipotence of the State, and, as a policy, the attempt to regulate all mundane affairs by authoritative commandment and prohibition. The ideal society of etatism is a particular sort of socialistic community; it is usual in discussions involving this ideal society to speak of State Socialism, or, in some connexions, of Christian Socialism. "
― Ludwig von Mises , The Theory of Money and Credit
3 " O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit? "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon
4 " And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent. "
― , The Best of Sydney J. Harris
5 " The twentieth century prided itself on invalidating the metaphysical. Doubts about the afterlife arose even as so-called nonbelievers attempted to locate surrogates for the loss of meaning atheism occasioned. Enraptured with progress, we deepened our collective worship of science. As incredulity to metanarratives rose, so did a massive publicity campaign to convince us of the omnipotence of science. "
― Adam Leith Gollner , The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever
6 " Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. "
7 " Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God. "
― Thomas Aquinas , Summa Theologica
8 " Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things the simplest and the sublim-est the weakest and the most powerful its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God. "
9 " Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. "
