Quotes about Authority

Those who can command themselves command others.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

We admit of no government by divine right… the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

Today there is virtually a consensus... that Jesus came on the scene with an unheard of authority, with the claim of the authority to stand in God's place and speak to us and bring us to salvation. With regard to Jesus there are only two possible modes of behavior: either to believe that in him God encounters us or to nail him to the cross as a blasphemer. Tertium non datur. [There is no third way.]2

Thomas's procedure, then, may be summarized in three steps: (1) Fulfilled prophecies and miracles make it credible that the Scriptures taken together as a whole are a revelation from God. (2) As a revelation from God, Scripture is absolutely authoritative. (3) Therefore, those doctrines taught by Scripture that are neither demonstrably provable nor empirically evident may be accepted by faith on the authority of Scripture.

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

God will not move unless I say it. Why? because He has made us coworkers with Him. He set things up that way.

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?