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  • Keep on, and see how his mighty power will torture you and your descendants!" (2 Maccabees 7, 17)

  • Thus he who had just been thinking that he could command the waves of the sea, in his superhuman arrogance, and imagining that he could weigh the high mountains in a balance, was brought down to earth and carried in a litter, making the power of God manifest to all. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)

  • and in addition to all this he also would become a Jew and would visit every inhabited place to proclaim the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)

  • He took no account whatever of the power of God, but was elated with his ten thousands of infantry, and his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)

  • But the Jews called upon the Sovereign who with power shatters the might of his enemies, and they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were within it. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)

  • Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. (Proverbs 3, 27)

  • then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor. (Proverbs 6, 3)

  • Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. (Proverbs 18, 21)

  • Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. (Ecclesiastes 4, 1)

  • Every man also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and find enjoyment in his toil -- this is the gift of God. (Ecclesiastes 5, 19)

  • a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction. (Ecclesiastes 6, 2)

  • No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it. (Ecclesiastes 8, 8)


“A pessoa que nunca medita é como alguém que nunca se olha no espelho e, assim, não se cuida e sai desarrumada. A pessoa que medita e dirige seus pensamentos a Deus, que é o espelho de sua alma, procura conhecer seus defeitos, tenta corrigi-los, modera seus impulsos e põe em ordem sua consciência.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina