Dominion Quotes

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.

The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

Our neighbors the Hollanders may be our example in this case; who whilst we have been driving a private trade from port to port, of which we are likely now to be deprived, have conquered so much land in the East and West Indies that it may be said of them, as of the Spaniards, That the sun never sets upon their dominions.

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Dominion by land or sea will appear equally destitute of attraction, when it comes to be generally understood, that all its advantages rest with the rulers, and that the subjects at large derive no benefit whatever.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.