Quotes About Authority

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

The Lord is our God, our judge, and our king, and He shall reign over us.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.

Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.