God Quote by Gabriele Nanni

The line opens with a strategic self-demotion: “we poor men” is less confession than positioning. Whoever Gabriele Nanni is, he speaks from a tradition where humility isn’t just a virtue; it’s a credential. By insisting humans are not “so powerful,” he preempts the most common suspicion aimed at anyone claiming spiritual authority: ego. The sentence builds a narrow corridor the listener is meant to walk down. If evil can be “banished” at all, it can’t be because a charismatic person willed it into happening. It must be delegated power, on loan from God.

That framing does two things at once. It comforts and it disciplines. Comfort, because it offers a clean explanation for moral chaos: the devil is real, and there is a mechanism to resist him. Discipline, because it relocates agency. You may act, but you’re not the author of the action. Success becomes evidence of divine favor; failure can be read as insufficient faith, improper alignment, or simply that God didn’t “give” the power in that moment.

The rhetoric is also quietly political. “We” implies a community bound by shared vulnerability and shared access to grace, but it also draws a line between those inside the God-powered circle and those outside it. The devil becomes a named adversary, and God becomes the legitimizing force behind whoever is speaking. It’s humility with muscle: a way to claim authority while denying you’re claiming it.