Quotes About Authority

Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.

Adam and Eve weren't just after God's forbidden fruit; they were after God's position.

He is not only your indwelling Savior, he is your reigning King. He does in you what you could not do for yourself and he does outside of you what you have no power or authority to do.

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren't designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

Sadly, rather than growing in a sense of need for and submission to the authority that God has placed in their lives, many children become emotional weathermen. They have come to understand that the rules of the house tend to change with the emotion of the parent who is present.

Usted es un hijo del Rey de Reyes y vive bajo la sombra de Sus alas. Usted es parte de Su plan. Eso significa que el ejercicio de Su poder y autoridad es para bendición suya.

This is grace: the King died to dethrone kings so that he would be their King forever and ever and ever.

I have been freed, not from God's rule, but from my bondage to me.

And not only does he live inside of you, he rules all the situations, locations, and relationships that are out of your control. He is not only your indwelling Savior, he is your reigning King. He does in you what you could not do for yourself and he does outside of you what you have no power or authority to do. And he does all of this with your redemptive good in mind. Since this is true, why would you give way to fear?

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.

We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

God's promises are only as good as the extent of his sovereignty.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

It contradicts our normal thinking, but the doorway to freedom is submission. When I acknowledge that I am a danger to myself and submit to the authority, wisdom, and grace of God, I am not killing any hope I have for freedom. The opposite is true.

That's the greatest thing about wikis: they combine the best features of democracy and autocracy. Everybody has an equal say. But some got bigger says than others.

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.

Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

From that day on I clearly understood that the kingdom of God can never mix with politics

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

And power will always consume itself.