Quotes about Authority

His power is accessible.

These men were not selected by a jury of fellow artists, but appointed by the sovereign and electing choice of God.

A Creed,3 or Rule of Faith,4 or Symbol,5 is a confession of faith for public use, or a form of words setting forth with authority certain articles of belief, which are regarded by the framers as necessary for salvation, or at least for the well-being of the Christian Church.

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

And so the impulses of nature are what give authenticity to life, not obeying rules come from a supernatural authority, that's the sense of the Grail.

all authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.

it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.