Quotes About Authority

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must "by faith" accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!

Jesus demands to be Master and Lord of every part of your life. Is He Lord of your mind, of what you think, read, and believe? Of what you dream about, meditate on, and entertain yourself with? Do your eyes belong to Christ? Can [you] ask God's blessing on it? Can [you] do this to the glory of God?

The Bible can stand the onslaught of any enemy.

God] speaks from heaven through the Bible, His written Word. This is why I use the phrase "the Bible says." I would not have the authority to say what I do in sermons unless it was based upon the Word of God.

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, "Lord, You are going to be my authority"? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.

The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live . . . it is our instructor.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

To every soul of man the way to freedom is through submission. We must obey before we can command.

The world is filled with Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes, and steal your dreams.

The principal duty of the king is, to govern his people according to law.

The king never dies. Henry, Edward, or George may die; but the king survives them all.

For since the respective members are bound to conform themselves to the will of the state, it is expedient that they receive directions from the state declaratory of that it's will.

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical…. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

If I ran the world--and God knows I could do a better job of it than the yahoos doing it now--any leader who sent troops off to fight would have to march at the head of the ranks. That would bring about world peace in four weeks.

Ellen Degeneres: "There's a curfew for all the people on American Idol and you didn't pay attention to it, ever." Blake: "Yeah, why?" Ellen: "Why? That's my question.