Quotes About Authority

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

The voice of the people, the voice of God.

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

If we don't play God, who will?