#pow

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#i #manipulation #most #painting #power

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#atomic bomb #bomb #certainly #conclusively #controls

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#illusion #living #power #under

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#always #am #causes #chose #create

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enterprises #expect #few #great #had

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enlarges #everything #human #human powers #man

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#courage #either #endeavors #fails #his

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was! ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#brother #created #great #had #i

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#alike #character #christ #depend #depths