For a long time, as we have seen, theiromnipotence was acknowledged by the two classes who saw in the use of that spiritual dominion a counterpoise to the worldly sceptres by which they were crushed.
He devoted himself as knight and champion to the Virgin, heard with contempt and horror of the efforts made to deny the omnipotence of the Chair of Rome, and swore to be its defender.
Glory be to Thee, Thou in Whose hand are the heaven of omnipotence and the kingdom of creation.
Thou art, verily, the One to the power of Whose might all things have testified, and to Whose majesty and omnipotence the whole creation hath borne witness.
Thou art He before the revelations of Whose omnipotence the quintessence of power hath trembled.
It call'd for an Omnipotenceto raise The World's Imperial Poem in Six Days.
The Vigor ofOmnipotence was seen In his high Actions, and Imperial Mien.
Wait until you have seen her," urged Denzil, with the lover's confidence in the omnipotence of his mistress's charms.
After that,' says Geijer, the classic historian of Sweden, 'all was interpreted to the advantage of the omnipotence of one alone.
The most profound thinker does not go beyond these set limits; and if he would boldly over-step them, he would be thrown back by evident contradiction into that circle which Omnipotence has drawn around the human intellect.
The United States had won their independence and adopted their federal constitution before that event, and certainly the American republic was not founded on the principle of the omnipotence of the state or of the people.
One would have supposed it quite as easy to divest the Christ-figure of any inconvenient attributes as to eliminate omniscience and omnipotence from the God-idea.
It is true that there are passages in the Gospels which no more accord with Mr. Shaw's sociology than do omnipotence and omniscience with the theology of Mr. Wells.
Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete.
The omnipotence of opinion had convinced him of the vanity of all the plans submitted to him for crushing it.
Away, then, with these miserable sophisms, fathers of the country, and have no more doubt of the omnipotence of a free people.
He believed in the divinity of reason, and in the omnipotence of the human understanding, with liberty as its handmaid.
Who could refuse you that which belonged to you by the grandeur of your views, and by the omnipotence of your arms.
It will fall, not beneath the force of the enginery of war, but before the omnipotence of these words: 'There is no other God but God, and God alone is great.
Once I believed implicitly in the omnipotence of the human will to make life just what one wished.
The priests and pilgrims, who returned from Rome, exalted, by every tale, the omnipotence of the holy father.
He said that the acuteness and violence of his sufferings were necessarily in the proportion of those honors with which it had ever pleased the hand of Omnipotence to distinguish its peculiar favorites.
The total powerlessness of the significant appearances presented to the senses, and the omnipotence of Mind in the economy of external nature, is its chief philosophical lesson.
The total impotence of Matter, and the omnipotence of Mind or Spirit in Nature, is thus early becoming the dominant thought with Berkeley.
These are the methods of finite intelligence; they imply the overcoming of obstacles; and to ascribe them to omnipotence is to combine words that severally possess meanings into a phrase that has no meaning.
In this noble description of creative omnipotence one would search in vain for any hint of contrivance.
The practical solution oftenest adopted has been that which sacrifices the Creator's omnipotence in favour of his benevolence.
It is not omnipotence that contrives and plans and adapts means to ends.
It is a conviction of the divine love which cannot be shaken, and of its sovereignty and omnipotence in the Risen Christ.
There is sure to be that in the life which will reveal the graciousness as well as the omnipotence of the Saviour.
Omnipotence of the Majority The greatest danger to liberty in America lies in the omnipotence of the majority.
Meccans themselves, seeing the futility of further resistance, opened their gates to the Prophet and acknowledged the omnipotence of Allah.
These signs of the omnipotence of the gods were shown in the reign of Antoninus.
Glory to thine omnipotence and mercy, that thou, Lord, hast vouchsafed to hear me!
For the rest, each Tlatoani was perfectly independent in his own domain, which he governed with the same omnipotence as the king of Tezcuco himself.
God who intended to convey to us an idea of his omnipotence and immutability.
A devout believer in the omnipotence of the Deity would doubtless wonder how chariots of iron could form serious obstacles to the attainment of any object by Judah, when the Lord was fighting for Judah.
Clasp thee, his torturer, like remorse; Till thine Infinity shall be A robe of envenomed agony; And thine Omnipotence a crown of pain, 290 To cling like burning gold round thy dissolving brain.
Mother, thy sons and thou Scorn him, without whose all-enduring will Beneath the fierce omnipotence of Jove, 115 Both they and thou had vanished, like thin mist Unrolled on the morning wind.
As to my theory of the Omnipotence of Human Will, it is blown and exploded, and all the King's horses and all the King's men will never set it back on the pedestal it has toppled from.
This was to be confirmed later by the arrival of an engine-driver minus five fingers and some faith in the omnipotence of British arms.
