Quotes about Authority
I am a servant, taking orders and receiving orders. What God tells me, I say, and what He shows me, I see. His will must always supersede.
— TB Joshua
What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
— Vance Havner
When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.
— Greg Laurie
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
— JC Ryle
The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
— JC Ryle
It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
— Martin Luther
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
— NT Wright
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
— RC Sproul
A mother is God's deputy on earth.
— Rahel Varnhagen
God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.
— Alistair Begg
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.
— Alphonsus Liguori