Quotes about Authority
The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition - especially when they do not run counter to the Faith - are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.
— Jerome
One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
— Seth Godin
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
— Charles Hodge
We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.
— Richard Foster
Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.
— Charles Hodge
Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.
— Cornelius Van Til
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
— Vance Havner
If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
— Joseph Heller
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
— St. Augustine
And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.
— CS Lewis