Quotes About Authority

God is the only standard of justice, and we must submit to his standard instead of imposing our own standard on him.

The Bible leaves no room for anti-intellectualism, and offers no excuse for withholding agreement or obedience.

It is right for man to submit to God and obey his commands (Ecclesiastes 12:13).

the Bible is a book, but it is not like any other book. It is God's mind, God's word, God's voice, and therefore it possesses supreme value and ultimate authority.

To begin, any human government should be established "by God's authority, for God's glory," and not "by the people, for the people." This is not to overturn the foundation of American government or the philosophy of democracy.

The Bible, or Scripture, is the ultimate authority and first principle of the Christian system, and it is the source of our knowledge about God and the things of God. Therefore, it is appropriate to begin the study of theology by considering the attributes of Scripture.

People hate being told what to do or what to believe, although they think this way in part because they have been told to do so.

Until heaven, there will be no government in which those who hold power are completely sinless and selfless, and in which all the precepts of God are perfectly followed.

Everything that we need to know as Christians is found in the Bible.

The Bible, or Scripture, is the ultimate authority and first principle of the Christian system, and it is the source of our knowledge about God and the things of God.

God is the ruler over every person and every institution, not just the believer and the church. And since the Bible is his revelation, it carries the same authority over every person and every institution. Therefore, every human government must submit and operate under the Bible, and any deviation from it constitutes sinful rebellion against divine authority.

this universe is not a democracy, and you cannot democratize or Americanize the kingdom of heaven. You have no rights that would require God to treat you a certain way.

If it refuses to honor biblical revelation, we shall whip it into submission with the hard chain of logic.

God not only sustains and controls all things, but he sovereignly sustains and controls all things. He can bring to life or put to death, cause to move or cause to stop, and create or destroy, all at his will and pleasure.

The standard of right and wrong rested solely on God's authority, not as something outside of him, but as identical to his will, and expressed in his instructions and commands.

it necessarily follows that it is the Bible that judges and the Bible that damns. God damns to hell whomever the Bible damns to hell. There is no difference.

In any case, theology deals with God, who has the right and power to govern all of thought and life. God knows the nature of reality, and communicates it to us through the Bible.

God possesses absolute and unlimited rights over his creation.

Since divine sovereignty is absolute, divine judgment is therefore certain – because God is sovereign, there will be a judgment.

As long as a person denies that the Bible is itself divine revelation, it remains nothing more than an ordinary book, so that he would hesitate to offer it complete reverence, as if it is possible to excessively adore it.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

What I am is my own business.' 'Not any more.' He let his voice sink down meaningfully on the words. 'You are now my business — mine to control just as I fancy.

And with a single stroke of his pen, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed suspended the institutions of Indian democracy!

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.