omnipotence

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That tension between omnipotence and powerlessness is captured in a word: adolescence.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025

In Mr. Anderson’s account of the fall of Iran’s shah in 1979, both the Iranian government and most of the Americans on the ground have a false sense of American omnipotence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

The exclusive worship of Isis was reflected in her perceived omnipotence and identification with other gods.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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