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Quotes About Authority

If scientists don't play God, who will?
~ James D. Watson
The Word of God has a supernatural edge with which a million-dollar budget can never compete.
~ Joseph Stowell
God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
~ Kenneth Patchen
If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.
~ Christopher Hitchens
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
~ Victor Hugo
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
~ William Godwin
God's people, in God's place, under God's rule
~ Graeme Goldsworthy
I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.
~ Greg Laurie
Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.
~ Horatius Bonar
He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.
~ Jean Racine
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
~ John Cleese
God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.
~ Matt Chandler
There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
~ Michael Shaara
If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
~ Pope Leo XIII
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.
~ Raymond Franz
Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.
~ Richard Parks Bland
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
~ John Shelby Spong
Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.
~ Martin Luther
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.
~ R. C. Sproul
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson