Quotes About A Higher Power

#1. I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.

Katy Perry

#2. What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

Steve-O

#3. If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!

Jenny Lind

#4. Words have power. And I may be privileged and have a higher IQ than any of our former teachers, but when people look at me? They see a black, male teenager. And there is nothing quite as frightening to some folks as an angry young black man.

Michelle Hodkin

#5. Darwinism is the story of humanity's liberation from the delusion that its destiny is controlled by a power higher than itself.

Anonymous

#6. Prayer for the Day Higher Power, show me how to live a simple life. I don't have to do everything the hard way if I listen better to You.

Anonymous

#7. I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Ja Rule

#8. A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Dean Koontz

#9. Move what you can do at level one when you get to level one. When you get to level two, you need a bigger power to move it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

Tom Giaquinto

#11. If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present.

Frederick Lenz

#12. What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People who believe in God, simply acknowledge the existence of a Higher Power. People who believe God believe Him enough to do what He says.

Robert G. Allen

#13. Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Kathleen Parker

#15. There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

Bucky Sinister

#16. Today I call upon my Higher Power to help me get through one more day. Help me have gratitude in the face of scarcity, strength in my private struggles and the wisdom to live a good life for myself and others. - Bryant McGill

Bryant McGill

#17. When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like gratifying, restorative and life-changing. It was something that "got you through the tough times," which "any young person could manage with a little hard work, trust and tenacity." God was a trip to Cancun.

Marisha Pessl

#18. For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Jason Isbell

#19. The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#20. No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

Sandra Bullock

#21. I really didn't think this was going to happen. I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don't happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#22. Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

Martha Beck

#23. Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Malcolm Forbes

#24. I came to believe in a power much higher than I

Johnny Cash

#25. Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

Callie Thorne

#26. God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#27. A higher power does exist. The forces of day-to-day reality seem to take hold and become the truth for you, yet truth is not seen with the eyes or heard with the ears. It is felt as the peace in your heart and professes itself with health and well being.

Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

#28. I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers and going, "You shouldn't do that because it's a sin against God." It's like, you know what? We're people. We're human beings. We're fallible. We have faults.

Malcolm D. Lee

#29. A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#30. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain... Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives, they realize they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.

Borje Vahamaki

#31. A time will come, Casey had told him in those early white-knuckle days, when your mental defenses will fail and the only thing left standing between you and a drink will be your Higher Power.

Stephen King

#32. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

Barack Obama

#33. I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Thomas Wolfe

#34. It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

Natalie Valdes

#35. I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

Quincy Jones

#36. Hope is a gaze on a higher power to meet our every need.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. I love and enjoy writing.
Writing is a form of daily communication.
It a communication to higher divine power.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

Ellen DeGeneres

#39. Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Andrew O'Hagan

#40. If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

Paul Brunton

#41. A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone.

Emily M. Danforth

#42. The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

Hakeem Jeffries

#43. The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman".

Robert H. Jackson

#44. The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

Sara Rue

#46. And in terms of welfare, of course, the loss suffered will be much greater than the loss in merely arithmetical terms, because the psychological losses of those who are unemployed will greatly outweigh the psychological gains of those with a slightly higher income in terms of purchasing power.

Henry Hazlitt

#47. I don't subscribe much to the belief that things happen for a reason, that there's some higher power at the controls, directing all of us like we're in some cosmic summer stock production. Shit just happens is more or less my philosophy.

Linwood Barclay

#48. You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

Arthur C. Clarke

#49. I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

Fergie

#50. Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

Marco Rubio

#51. Your life today and tomorrow is patterned alongside your thoughts. You are therefore advised to create good and wonderful thoughts today so they will deliver a beautiful tomorrow for you.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#52. Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.

Ravi Zacharias

#53. Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

Israelmore Ayivor

#54. My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

Kenny Loggins

#55. This remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.

Ludwig Von Mises

#56. It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

Ramana Maharshi

#57. I'm convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.

Veronika Carnaby

#58. I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

Jane Seymour

#59. The most fascinating revelation is that humanity can tune into a consistently higher frequency through the power of peace and inner stillness.

Christopher Dines

#60. I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

James McGreevey

#61. You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

Mike Dooley

#62. Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.

Theophilus London

#63. Love is a divine being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#64. I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

Davone Bess

#65. Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#66. The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.

Sunday Adelaja

#67. If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.

Bert McCracken

#68. If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

Frederick Lenz

#69. When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

Deepak Chopra

#70. Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Gary Hopkins

#71. MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Ambrose Bierce

#72. This is a sublime work whether any higher power exists or not. It does not prove the existence of anything. No gods ever created art.'
'In an earlier age, some might have considered such a sentiment blasphemy.'
'Blasphemy,' said Revelation with a wry smile, 'is a victimless crime.

Graham McNeill

#73. Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.

Queen Latifah

#74. You know, I'm atheist, but I get it. I get why people have faith in a higher power. Some people need it. They need to believe they're not alone.

Hannah Harrington

#75. I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

Alicia Keys

#76. Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.

Erich Fromm

#77. This Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

Dolores Cannon

#78. While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible - through analysis and research - to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the idea of a specific God.

David G. McAfee

#79. they gave him power to fly was this: They all tickled him on the shoulder, and soon he felt a funny itching in that part and then up he rose higher and higher and flew away out of the Gardens and over the house-tops. It

J.M. Barrie

#80. I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.

Eva Longoria

#81. I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Anwar Sadat

#82. Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression "being points beyond itself" may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#83. Purpose creates a belief in a higher power, directing you toward your goal on the best path possible.

Lawren Leo

#84. Men and women of integrity, character, and purpose have ever recognized a power higher than themselves and have sought through prayer to be guided by that power. Such has it ever been. So shall it ever be.

Thomas S. Monson

#85. I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.

Christian Slater

#86. I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

Van Jones

#87. In certain situations you ask to see a sign to guide you in the right direction. Sometimes these calls to a higher power are answered and sometimes we are left to seek counsel from within. But if you look for them, the signs will usually present themselves to those with open eyes.

Adam Braun

#88. I'm an agnosto-theist. I cross myself on airplanes. I pray when I'm sick. When you're sick I'll keep you in my thoughts; when I'm sick, I'm entreating a higher power.

Dan Savage

#89. Sometimes to touch us, God touches someone that's close to us. This is what opens our eyes to the fact there is a higher power than ourselves, whether we call it God or not.

Ron Hall

#90. A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.

Mason Jennings

#91. I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.

Alana Stewart

#92. Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Rainn Wilson

#93. This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#94. If it was in an attempt to purify her soul, to destroy the devil inside with a higher power.

Alessandra Torre

#95. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

Shannon L. Alder

#96. One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.

Ramana Maharshi

#97. We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

Nancy Gibbs

#98. A lower power cannot compass the full understanding of a higher. But to limit one's belief to the bounds of one's own small powers, would be to tie oneself down to the foot of a tree, and deny the existence of its upper branches.

Mrs. Alfred Gatty

#99. It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.

Lisa Rinna

#100. He laughs and stares up at the ceiling, as though a higher power changed his life path. Maybe fate, luck - or him. His choice. He took the risk.

Krista Ritchie