Top 100 Quotes About Dominion
#2. Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.
Michael Sandel
#3. I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve," returned he, "either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.
James Hogg
#4. Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals ...
Emma Goldman
#5. If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
Catherine Booth
#6. Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.
Ed Silvoso
#7. It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.
Walter Lippmann
#8. He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.
Samuel Johnson
#9. 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.
Lysander Spooner
#10. Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.
Gary North
#11. All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes.
Robert Anton Wilson
#12. It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire
John L. Dagg
#13. Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.
Robert Charles Wilson
#14. 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.
John Owen
#15. [I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.
Richard M. Weaver
#16. [priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.
David Hume
#17. WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
Gary North
#19. To establish the kingdom of love is to live in dominion
Sunday Adelaja
#20. Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
John Newton
#21. Every man and woman is made in the Father's image and likeness and thus shares in the dominion and dignity of the one God and King. This is one of the most astonishing elements of the story: God desires to relate to his creatures, not as a master to a slave but as a Father to his sons and daughters!
Tim Gray
#22. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Isaac Newton
#23. Woodrow Wilson later wrote: "The Constitution of the United States has been made under the dominion of the Newtonian theory.
Andrew Thomas
#24. Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
Anonymous
#25. Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
Laini Taylor
#26. The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Order my footsteps by Thy Word, And make my heart sincere; Let sin have no dominion, Lord, But keep my conscience clear.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#28. For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?
Robert Higgs
#30. Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.
Gautama Buddha
#31. The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.
Roger Scruton
#32. 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.
Richard A. Young
#33. Greater than all the joys
Of heaven and earth,
Greater still than dominion
Over all the worlds,
Is the joy of reaching the stream.
Gautama Buddha
#34. Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.
Toni Morrison
#36. Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty (S. Charnock). It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin's dominion.
Arthur W. Pink
#37. 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
Isaac Newton
#38. What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.
Maggie Q
#39. God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
Brigham Young
#40. Language is a code that I manipulate, to deny others' dominion over me" - Todd Brendan Fahey
Todd Brendan Fahey
#41. To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#42. Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.
You scarless children deserve nothing. You do not know pain. You do not know what
your forefathers sacrificed to place you on these heights. But soon, you will.
Pierce Brown
#44. You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.
Richard Bach
#45. 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.
Euripides
#46. And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Albert Camus
#47. Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.
Joseph Alleine
#48. Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)
Jeaniene Frost
#49. I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.
Charles Colson
#50. History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.
Sebastian Barry
#51. My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
Abraham Verghese
#52. Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.
Dylan Thomas
#53. Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#54. For he who has died has been freed from sin ... 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Paul The Apostle
#55. A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope
#56. Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.
Auliq Ice
#57. Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. Authority and dominion without relationship is ridiculous
Louis
#60. it is grace that makes us fulfil the law, and causes nature to be liberated from the dominion of sin.
Augustine Of Hippo
#61. Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.
Hugh Nibley
#62. The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.
Mary Baker Eddy
#63. When the demon was muscling for action she was like the princess in the fairy tale from whose mouth toads fell. The small part of her which remained outside the dominion of her temper stood aghast but inefficient as one after the other the reptiles showered forth.
Elizabeth Goudge
#64. To usurp dominion over a people, in their own despite, or to grasp at a more extensive power than they are willing to entrust, is to violate that law of nature, which gives every man a right to his personal liberty; and can, therefore, confer no obligation to obedience.
Jonathan Emord
#65. God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
Helen Keller
#66. Anarchism rouses man to rebellion against this black monster. Break your mental fetters, says Anarchism to man, for not until you think and judge for yourself will you get rid of the dominion of darkness, the greatest obstacle to all progress.
Emma Goldman
#67. But that's life. We wander around like blind mice searching for whatever it is we're looking for. From mice to miserable men, from the poetry of childhood's hour to the darkness of death's goddamn dominion, we never stop searching. Why can't we just be?
Gregory Hughes
#68. For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.
Thucydides
#69. Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph Addison
#70. However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Kate Millett
#71. All the animals and creatures of this earth are our former brothers and sisters but because we believe that we have "dominion" over them, we have become cruel little emperors.
John O'Donohue
#72. It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.
Junot Diaz
#73. O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
Jean De La Fontaine
#74. Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. In order to reach his destiny and have dominion over the earth, man has to get wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
#76. Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.
Emma Goldman
#77. Stone, steel, dominions pass,
Faith too, no wonder;
So leave alone the grass
That I am under.
A.E. Housman
#78. The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God ... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
David Attenborough
#79. And on this earth of ours there are but few souls that can withstand the dominion of the soul that has suffered itself to become beautiful.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#80. It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
Murray N. Rothbard
#81. I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!
Bill Bailey
#82. Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.
Pope Paul VI
#83. We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit,
Rick Santorum
#84. Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak
#85. Those created creations were treated like tools that talked, their sentience an annoying product of magic noise, by those little mortal demiurges who thought dominion a natural by-product of expertise or creation.
China Mieville
#86. Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price
it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
Roger Scruton
#87. Invest first in education. In reality, the only real asset you have is your mind, the most powerful tool we have dominion over.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#88. Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion - in men's souls. It
Paramahansa Yogananda
#89. The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens ... must be broken, or it will break us.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. The position of dominion comes as a result of getting wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
#91. My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. There is nothing so good and nothing so evil but that it shall work together for good to me, if only I believe. Yes, since faith alone suffices for salvation, I need nothing except faith exercising the power and dominion of its own liberty.
Martin Luther
#93. Cowardly isn't a dereliction of duty, but rather a part of our humanity. However, only the brave ones are known for their humanity.
Melody Manful
#94. The dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the dominion of bad men is hurtful chiefly to themselves who rule, for they destroy their own souls by greater licence in wickedness;
Augustine Of Hippo
#95. But why should we have dominion? Are we better than the dog that stays by a master who forgets to notice him? Than the cat who lays the mouse at your door when she is hungry and could have eaten it herself? Than a horse who will keep galloping to please you until its lungs have given out?
Lynn Cullen
#96. God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#97. Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II
#98. Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
Edmund Burke
#99. Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#100. The church of the Twenty-first Century will have the belt of dominion and will have the leading role in every area of society.
Sunday Adelaja
