Quotes About Authority

on the one hand she had boundless trust in me, merely because I was thirty years older, a childish trust, and on the other hand no respect at all. I was vexed to find I expected respect.

Why do we go on listening to economic prophets when they plainly know no more about the future than you or I?

Through his power all things were made—things in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, all powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ. Colossians 1:16

When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.

The snake pulled back the curtain to the throne room and invited Eve to take a seat. Put on the crown. Pick up the scepter. Put on the cape. See how it feels to have power. See how feels to have a name. See how it feels to be in control! Eve swallowed the hook. The temptation to be like God eclipsed her view of God.

El Hijo del hombre tiene autoridad en la tierra para perdonar pecados» (Marcos 2.10, DHH). Punto. Fin de la discusión. Él tiene la última palabra sobre tu vida. Y su palabra implica gracia.

Every level of inheritance requires a disinheritance from the devil. Satan must be moved off before the saint can move in.

Remember, you are a coheir with Christ. Every attribute of Jesus is at your disposal.

You can be the air traffic controller of your mental airport. You occupy the control tower and can direct the mental traffic of your world.

God doesn't get angry because he doesn't get his way. He gets angry because disobedience always results in self-destruction. What kind of father sits by and watches his child hurt himself?

Your Queen I cannot be. Your mistress I will not be.

Wholeness, so far as statesmen go, may have something to do with speaking in one's own words. De Gaulle did not call in "writers"; the very idea is grotesque. The leader who allows others to speak for him is abdicating. Who is speaking via Nixon? Who wrote this phrase or that? One is never quite sure.

A teacher cannot become too human or too vulnerable, or he ceases to be the rock every young person needs.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard was so agreeable to me that I went one step further: Obedient children should not see or hear if they chose not to do so. I laid a handful of attention on my face and tuned up the sounds in the church.

I should have known better than to lie to the government. People always said Uncle Sam would spend a thousand dollars to get you if you stole a three-cent stamp from him. He was more revengeful than God.

A woman] will need to prize her tenderness and be able to display it at appropriate times in order to prevent toughness from gaining total authority and to avoid becoming a mirror image of those men who value power above life, and control over love.

Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard was so agreeable to me that I went one step further: Obedient children should not see or hear if they chose not to do so.

I am Lady, and still your mother.¨

Lighting: a hundred Watts Detroit, Newark and New York Screeching nerves, exploding minds lives tied to a policeman's whistle a welfare worker's doorbell finger

I was crying loudly now. Momma's voice had risen to a shouting pitch, and I knew that whatever wrong I had committed was extremely serious.

I've tried doing this your way. I've tried being patient, understanding, gentle even. This time we're doing it my way.

I know when I've been given my marching orders.

He gave orders and he expected results. And she didn't know what it said about her that she found that particular trait delicious. It made her all warm and shivery inside.