Quotes about Authority

When people who are in authority in our lives make a mistake and we are there to help them fix it, that expression of kindness allows them to accept what they did as wrong instead of needing to justify or blame. It endears them to us, and the light of Jesus Christ is clearly seen in us. The next time we give our opinion, we can be sure they will give it greater consideration because we have earned the right to be heard.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

We already have all the power we need, because of our position in Christ.

any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

It is heaven that rules.

To most people at the time it was unthinkable that religion might ever not be what it was then. However, Bryce mused, if religion in America were ever to lose its strength and authority, the result would be "the completest revolution of all." The strongest bonding in American society would have gone, and unbounded freedom would run amok and work to cause its own undoing.

God calls people to himself, but this call is no casual suggestion. He is so awe inspiring and his summons so commanding that only one response is appropriate—a response as total and universal as the authority of the Caller. Thus

but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

God doesn't want courageous cowards; He needs confident commanders.