Quotes About Authority

I'll never forget the Sunday that the Lord informed me that it wasn't my service, and I couldn't do as I pleased. (Planning is biblical. But our diligence and vision must never include usurping the authority of the Holy Spirit. The lordship of Jesus is seen in our willingness to follow the Holy Spirit's leading. He wants His Church back!) But

The Kingdom of God is not in logos but in dunamis.

The bottom line is that we must learn to rule with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king.

I honor You for the fact that of the increase of Your government there will be no end!

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn't seen God's power and needed an explanation to justify their own powerless churches.

It ain't nothin' till I call it.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!

Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.

Revolution without revelation is tyranny.

secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In

truly believe this child to be the new king. A furious Herod summons his religious advisers. As a secular

General Grant's decision has now been made for him. After months and years of men obeying his every order, he bows to an even greater authority than the president of the United States: his wife.

that the decision to use force should not be determined by men whose careers depend upon its use.

I am not occasionally insubordinate," Ferencz corrected an officer, who noted that description of his behavior in an official file. "I am usually insubordinate. I don't take orders that I know are stupid or illegal.

But not in Mississippi. Though police

The decision to use force should not be determined by men who's careers depend on the use of force.

On September 6, 1819, he wrote: "The Constitution Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

The Nazarene tells a parable about a wealthy landowner and his troublesome tenants. The summation is a line stating that the religious leaders will lose their authority and be replaced by others whose belief is more genuine.

The authorities aren't always up to the job.