“All created beings in this respect are but instruments in the hand of the Deity, whose will is sovereign over them.. The Divine Being, as the great Father of spirits, combines within himself all the separate energies of the universe.  He is the source, origin, and fountain of all power diffused through creation.  The very minds which he has formed are kept in mysterious subordination, and can never overstep the bounds he has assigned them.  “Once have I heard  this, that power belongs unto God.”  James Madison Pendleton  (1811-1891)