Quotes About Authority

Christians are not under the authority of Moses as their lawgiver.29 They are under the authority of Christ, the new lawgiver. Christians are not under the Old Covenant and do not use it to define their moral absolutes any more than they use it to define their diet. They are under the New Covenant, and it defines everything in their life and worship either by clear precept or personal application of a principle.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...

each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...

freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...

authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

"Who touches a hair of yon gray headDies like a dog! March on!" he said.

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

The Bible must retain its autonomy and speak for itself. But that is also true when we hold traditional interpretations up to the Bible. The biblical text must retain its autonomy from tradition. We must always be willing to return to the text and consider it with fresh eyes.

Jesus will rule planet earth with a rod of iron, and of His kingdom there shall be no end (Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:33).

Take charge of your life or someone else will!

The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.