Literary notes about omnipotent (AI summary)
The term "omnipotent" in literature often conveys the notion of limitless, absolute power, whether referring to a divine being or an ultimate control within social or metaphoric realms. Authors invoke it to portray deities endowed with transcendental authority—as in portrayals of the Almighty in sacred texts ([1], [2], [3]) and mythological figures like Zeus ([4], [5])—or to emphasize an unrivaled capacity in human institutions and characters, as seen when a state or person is depicted as wielding all-powerful influence ([6], [7], [8]). It is also employed to explore philosophical debates, where omnipotence is linked to fate, the cosmic order, or the bounds of human will ([9], [10], [11]). Through these varied contexts, "omnipotent" deepens the narrative by encompassing both the divine and the human struggle for absolute authority ([12], [13]).
- 22 Thus sayth our Lord omnipotent: In the desert when you were thirstie in the riuer of the Amorrheites, and blasphemeing my name, (Ex 15:25)
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - But assuredly He is rightly called omnipotent, though He can neither die nor fall into error.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - But the omnipotent Zeus of Greek mythology is now a creative force which works with Helios and has no separate existence.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian - Zeus or Jupiter is popularly to be taken as omnipotent.
— from The Iliad by Homer - The Sovereign must, therefore, treat all its members alike; but, so long as it does this, it remains omnipotent.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - At the tea-table she reigns omnipotent, unapproachable.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon - They were the creatures of her will, and she shaped careers as if she were omnipotent.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - better these then worse By my advice; since fate inevitable Subdues us, and Omnipotent Decree, The Victors will.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton - For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The omnipotent can only will what is good.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - In writing, again, the author must be omnipotent.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London - On the other hand, an omnipotent and omniscient Creator ordains everything and foresees everything.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop