Quotes about Authority

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

Faith means you take God at his word, you never let yourself think that you're smarter than him, and you live inside his boundaries.

Sadly, rather than growing in a sense of need for and submission to the authority that God has placed in their lives, many children become emotional weathermen. They have come to understand that the rules of the house tend to change with the emotion of the parent who is present.

Children begin to lose respect for the parent who is content with a "do what I say and not as I do" relationship to children.

I have been freed, not from God's rule, but from my bondage to me.

And not only does he live inside of you, he rules all the situations, locations, and relationships that are out of your control. He is not only your indwelling Savior, he is your reigning King. He does in you what you could not do for yourself and he does outside of you what you have no power or authority to do. And he does all of this with your redemptive good in mind. Since this is true, why would you give way to fear?

Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority, and they're not it.

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

God's promises are only as good as the extent of his sovereignty.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

It takes grace for me to acknowledge that there is a King and that he is not me.

It contradicts our normal thinking, but the doorway to freedom is submission. When I acknowledge that I am a danger to myself and submit to the authority, wisdom, and grace of God, I am not killing any hope I have for freedom. The opposite is true.