Quotes About Authority

Klein, karakterloos kwezeltje dat je bent,' zei ze op strenge toon. 'Kom uit je bed en trek je schoenen aan, anders snij ik je oren van je kop.

Don't you Mother me, Madelyn!" she snapped.

Don't you Mother me, Madelyn!" she snapped. Madelyn's shoulders straightened and she stood a little taller. She was two centimeters shorter than her mother, and at times like this, she felt that deficiency put her at a disadvantage. "Then don't you Madelyn me!

Malcolm doesn't know everything," he said shortly. Will couldn't help grinning. "And you do?" "Of course I do," Halt replied. " That's a well-known fact.

We're not big on that sort of thing. We wait for our leader to point to an enemy and say, 'Go whack him.

What . . . do I have to do exactly?" "If anyone annoys me, you squash him," Hal told him and Ingvar nodded happily.

Furthermore, you are a trusted officer in the service of the King and so on and so on and hi diddle diddle dee dee . . ." He glanced up again. " These forms really carry on a bit, don't they?

Lady Pauline arched an eyebrow. "It didn't stop you throwing people into moats.

Wat zei ik nou? Als je nog een keer water over me heen slaat dan gooi ik je overboord! Voorzichtig! Niet te wild!' - Alyss Zo praat je eigenlijk niet tegen de kroonprinses van Araluen, schoot door Evanlyn heen.

With most rulers, he knew, the words 'whenever it is convenient for you' meant 'right now, and five minutes ago if you can make it'.

Gelukkig is het niet verplicht.' Gilan deed alsof hij even nadacht. 'Ik zou het verplicht kunnen máken.' Ze glimlachte allerliefst naar hem. 'Ja, dan kan ik eindelijk eens een opdracht aan mijn laars lappen.

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

Harold stuck his chest out a bit. "I'm the Senator's representative in this district," which made me think of the relationship priests supposedly have with God.

Sire—I have received an order, under your majesty's seal, to put to death all the protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty, not to believe the letter a forgery; but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it.

the pope's being infallible was an impossibility, and the pope arrogantly laid claim to what could belong to God only, as a perfect being.

I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.

but maintained that the bishop of Rome had no authority whatever to dispense with the Word of God.

the pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.

You have them in your power it is true; but my consolation is, that your power is only a temporary authority over their bodies: you may destroy the mortal part, but their immortal souls are out of your reach, and will live hereafter to bear testimony against you for your cruelties. I therefore recommend them and myself to God, and pray for a reformation in your heart. Joshua Gianavel.

He was the first who termed the pope Antichrist.

Control is made of knowing what we have, and what we want,' said the daemon, and I felt an echo of its satisfaction shiver through me. 'Power is having something that someone else wants and cannot have.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

We are saying that a new lawgiver has superceded and gone far beyond what Moses and his law could ever do. We refuse to belittle Moses in order to establish Christ. However, we also refuse to demean Christ by making him an equal moral authority with Moses. We do not believe that Christ came merely to interpret and approve Moses. Christ has given us new laws based entirely on grace. Christ is the new lawgiver over the true house of God.

In the New Testament Scriptures, Christ and his apostles deliver the laws that are necessary to govern a community based on grace. The full and final authority over the church's life and worship is not Moses and the laws of the earthly theocracy. Her full and final authority is the Lord Jesus Christ, the new lawgiver who replaces Moses.