Quotes about dominion
Paul Bowles - The Spider's House
The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that he had elected to command. But to Stenham that seemed a shallow reply. To him wisdom consisted in the conscious and joyous obedience to natural laws, yet when he had said that to Moss, Moss had laughed pityingly. 'My dear man, wisdom is a primitive concept,' he had told him. 'What we want now is knowl
Sunday Adelaja -
To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).
A.E. Housman - More Poems
Stone, steel, dominions pass,Faith too, no wonder;So leave alone the grassThat I am under.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).
Barbara W. Tuchman - 1890-1914
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
Criss Jami - Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.
Richard A. Young - and Animal Rights
Humans do have authority over creation—but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning.
Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon -
The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions!
Sunday Adelaja -
To submit to a dominion is to pursue relationship with the King of that domain
Timothy J. Keller - Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and “unfold” creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God’s pattern of creative cultural development.
Sunday Adelaja -
In order to reach his destiny and have dominion over the earth, man has to get wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja -
Mankind’s original destiny was to extend God’s glorious dominion of love throughout the earth
Richard M. Weaver - Ideas Have Consequences
[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
Sunday Adelaja -
To live in peace and righteousness is to be restored to God’s dominion
Kate McGahan - JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
Not all dogs are perfect dogs, but all dogs are inherently good. Like people, we are affected by environment and circumstance. Some breeds get a bad rap because sometimes humans breed them to be a certain way, like overly macho or protective. In our life on earth we are dependent on humans for everything, including our breeding. We can be bred for aggression or we can be bred for peace.
Michel de Montaigne - Apology for Raymond Sebond
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
Sunday Adelaja -
Living a natural life is living in dominion of a darkened mind
Charles Murray - 1960-2010
People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
Sunday Adelaja -
Our calling is connected to our area of dominion.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
To know the purpose of a product, you must pay attention to what the manufacturer said about it. What God said about you is that you must have dominion over all other creation. Just pay attention and take the lead!
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Your dominion has nothing to do with a negative person's opinion. Flee from people who only hung on passport-size dreams and you'll see your bigger picture! Go for the big one!
Israelmore Ayivor -
Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a reckless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His purpose, but He will never see you as a hopeless being who was created for nothing. Now if God will not see you as hopeless, why then should you see yourself that way? Be bold to say am qualified to dominate the world!
Karla Perry - Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability
Remember, God placed man on earth and gave him dominion over the earth to cultivate and steward it. The fall of man subjected the earth to the same corruption as the hearts of man, but the work Jesus did on the cross set the course for the reversal of this process and the return to our intended mandate. Instead, we as Christians tend to sit back while those who do not know the Lord cultivate and dominate the earth. This is not wrong. They are in fact doing what they were created to do, but they
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Dominate the market with your products of self-control; no matter how many temptations produced by the devil, you will still overcome with profits of excellence!
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.
Sherry K. White -
Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.
Sunday Adelaja -
One of the man’s major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God hasdominion over the universe.
Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays
Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
Steve Corbett - When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
Unbelieving image-bearers really do have a lot of good ideas. To deny this is an affront to the One Whose image they bear.
Melody Manful - Dominion
The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.
Sunday Adelaja -
To take dominion over the earth is to follow the command of God
Sunday Adelaja -
To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion
Sunday Adelaja -
We are to live for the dominion of God’s kingdom
Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Lectures to My Students
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.
Melody Manful - Dominion
No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons.
Sunday Adelaja -
To establish the kingdom of love is to live in dominion
T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.
Kevin Swanson - Apostate
From all accounts, it seems the faithful opposition is reduced to Gideon's 300. The day has arrived for Christians to engage the battle...From now on, true Christians will engage the battle of ideas in academy. The time for giving up ground is over. Now we must fight. We must engage the [B]iblical worldview vigorously in the world of great literature. The greatests wars ever fought in history are not those fought by sword or artillery. The greatest battles are engaged in the realm of ideas
Mango Wodzak - Destination Eden
The sooner we wake up and realise that we have a moral duty to guide and protect this planet, the sooner things will improve for every form of life on this planet.
Barbara W. Tuchman - 1890-1914
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
Melody Manful - Dominion
Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.
Israelmore Ayivor -
It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known.