Quotes about Authority
Words wield power, both divine and mortal. We might think of the comparison of the power of words like this: God's words are omnipotent. Our words are potent.
— Beth Moore
I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the forces of Hades will not overpower it. Matthew 16:18
— Beth Moore
Whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:19
— Beth Moore
This is My Son, the Chosen One; listen to Him. Luke 9:35
— Beth Moore
Who are you— anyone who talks back to God? Romans 9:20
— Beth Moore
In order to accuse Him, they asked Him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:10
— Beth Moore
They want to be teachers of the law, although they don't understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 1 Timothy 1:7
— Beth Moore
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'
— Pope Benedict XVI
There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.
— Steven Pressfield
While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
— Steven Pressfield
Colonel L., in whose eyes I was a first-rate Riot Acter or, worse, an intellectual—in his phrase, "someone who reads books"—the most damning appraisal that could be made of a junior lieutenant.
— Steven Pressfield
We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12).
— Stormie Omartian