Omnipotency

The resort to "Omnipotency" in such matters is more convenient than philosophical; it is a dodging of the question, instead of an attempt to solve it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Mary Astell, with whom Norris corresponded, is as confounded when she wonders whether God “may according to the good Pleasure of His Omnipotency, give it [a triangle] a good speaking, a walking, or a dancing Faculty, and make it able to Eat and Drink”

Motherly Advice Trace Sheridan 2009

Kretzmann, N. (1985), ˜Nos ipsi principia sumus: Boethius and the Basis of Contingency™ in T. Rudavsky (ed.), Divine Omniscience and Omnipotency in Medieval Philosophy, Synthese Historical Library 25, Dordrecht: Reidel, 23-50.

Medieval Theories of Modality Knuuttila, Simo 2008

Who, either on the one side, indulging too much their thoughts immersed altogether in matter, can allow no existence to what is not material: or who, on the other side, finding not cogitation within the natural powers of matter, examined over and over again by the utmost intention of mind, have the confidence to conclude — That Omnipotency itself cannot give perception and thought to a substance which has the modification of solidity.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

"How He bringeth it to pass," says Pusey, "we may leave to His Omnipotency."

trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2006

Who, either on the one side, indulging too much their thoughts immersed altogether in matter, can allow no existence to what is not material: or who, on the other side, finding not cogitation within the natural powers of matter, examined over and over again by the utmost intention of mind, have the confidence to conclude - That Omnipotency itself cannot give perception and thought to a substance which has the modification of solidity.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

Nor can Omnipotency itself exalt a creature into any such condition as that it should not always and in all things depend absolutely on the Divine Being.

Christologia 1616-1683 1965

Let the omnipotency and prescience of a First Cause be granted, the corollary of 'whatever is, is right,' is one of the most obvious that can flow from any proposition: the distance of any link in the eternal sequence cannot lessen the connection with a First Cause, admitting its Omnipotency and Prescience.

An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

Did I wish even by stealth to do contrary to Thy law, because by power I could not, so that being a prisoner, I might mimic a maimed liberty by doing with impunity things unpermitted me, a darkened likeness of Thy Omnipotency?

The Second Book 1909

"It is for God and for Omnipotency to do mighty things in a moment; but by degrees to grow to greatness is the course that He hath left for man."

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850