Quotes about Hierarchy
My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
— Genesis 44:19
I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.
— Ecclesiastes 10:7
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
— Genesis 33:2
You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
— Genesis 41:40
“Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
— Genesis 48:18
If you are not royalty, He is not King.
— Beth Moore
He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
— Genesis 37:10
“What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.”
— Matthew 20:21
the multiple angry assaults on the "traditional family" are the rotten fruit of Christians corrupting the beauty and strength of the "covenantal family" of the Bible into the hated "hierarchical family" of the stereotypes so loved by feminists and others. Still
— Os Guinness
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
— Matthew 18:1
The highest does not stand without the lowest.
— Thomas a Kempis