Quotes about Authority
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God's.
— DA Carson
God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
— RC Sproul
When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
— Billy Sunday
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
— John F. Kennedy
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
— Ellen White
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.
— John Stott
Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God
— Kevin DeYoung
When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.
— John Bevere
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.
— John Knox
The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
— Vance Havner
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
— Martin Luther