Quotes about Authority

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

"Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own kurios (master) he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Kurios (Master or Lord) is able to make him stand" (NIV).

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Your ability to choose became your superpower.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

The best minds are not in government.

No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size—and that, in a way, became my theme.

These words were spoken by Him to whom, according to His own statement, is given all power in heaven and on earth. You who hear me must consider within yourselves whether you will bow before his authority or not, accept and believe the words or not. But if you do not wish to do so, then for heaven's sake do not go and accept the words because they are clever or profound or wonderfully beautiful, for that is a mockery of God.