Quotes about Authority
Remember that for every problem you face, Heaven has a divine prescription. God has a command of authority that you can bring against your present condition!
— Bishop TD Jakes
God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant.
— Tony Evans
If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.
— John Ortberg
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
— Charles Spurgeon
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
— James Madison
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
— Alexander Hamilton
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.
— Paulo Coelho
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
— Andrew Carnegie
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler