Quotes About Authority

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

We should create law based on the God of the Bible.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her.

The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.