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Quotes About Authority

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
~ Teresa of Avila
I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.
~ Anthony Bourdain
To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.
~ Bill Maher
The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.
~ Charles Colson
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.
~ Dana Gould
The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.
~ William J. Clinton
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
~ Ellen Hopkins
I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.
~ Evan Thomas
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
~ Frank Peretti
Always a godfather, never a god.
~ Gore Vidal
The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.
~ H. L. Mencken
The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.
~ Ignaz von Dollinger
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.
~ James Redfield
You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
~ Janet Morris
I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.
~ Janet Morris
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
~ John Owen
We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
~ John Steinbeck
God is the one who chooses our rulers
~ Katherine Harris
God will grovel before me, God will crawl at my feet.
~ Marilyn Manson
When the Scripture speaks, God speaks
~ Martin Luther
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.
~ R. C. Sproul
Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.
~ R. C. Sproul