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Quotes About Authority

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.
~ Nydia Velazquez
One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.
~ Karen Wheaton
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
A church that likes power likes prayer.
~ Jacob Peterson
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
~ Jim Morrison
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom
~ Charles Spurgeon
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
~ George Sand
The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.
~ S. D Gordon
Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.
~ Martin Luther
A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.
~ Barbara Jane Reyes
Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?"
~ Anthony Griffin
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.
~ Mooji
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
~ Harold Pinter
I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.
~ Scotty Bowman
I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!
~ Bill Cosby, Himself
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.
~ Myles Munroe
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
~ Charles James Fox
For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.
~ Myles Munroe
Use your power gently.
~ William Nicholson