Quotes about Authority

We followed the Three Steps to Hearing God that I had first learned from Joy Dawson in New Zealand. First, we took Christ's authority to silence the enemy. Second, we asked the Lord to clear from our minds any presumptions and preconceived ideas. Third, we waited…believing He would speak in the way and in the time that He chose.

A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people and our country want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.

Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Presence is a result of confidence. Presence... when we see it we feel it.

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Jesus was not crucified for being a good citizen, for being just a little nicer than everyone else. The powers of his day correctly saw him and his followers as subversives because they took orders from a higher power than Rome or Jerusalem. What would a subversive church look like in the modern United States?

The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of power, which are rules of ungrace

Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.