omnipotence
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The pope made his strongest denunciation so far of the use of force on Saturday, calling out the “delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
The pope described the Kingdom of God as a "bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
What it emphatically cannot mean is acceding to powerlessness in the face of a bunch of institutions that are working to make it seem as if their omnipotence is inevitable, or irrevocable, or constitutionally overdetermined.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
People who scored higher on the scale had greater control, which correlated with lower measures of hallucination severity and lower perceived malevolence and omnipotence of the voices.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
Tempier abolished many Aristotelian doctrines that contradicted God’s omnipotence, such as, “God can not move the heavens in a straight line, because that would leave behind a vacuum.”
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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A Brief History of Time
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Doctor Faustus
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Selection Vocabulary 2, Unit 4
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