Quotes about Authority
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
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.
— Charles Colson
It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!
— Charles Swindoll
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
— Tony Campolo
The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.
— Tony Evans
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
— Mahatma Gandhi