Quotes about Authority

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

God said, I am tired of kings,I suffer them no more;Up to my ear the morning bringsThe outrage of the poor.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

People would question anything having to do with God, but they wouldn't question their own questions. They would challenge the authority of a theologian, but they wouldn't challenge the authority of their buddy who claimed he had read a book that disproved the Bible.

People want to follow someone with convictions, not questions. Smooth eloquence can never take the place of unwavering belief.

What motivates us more: the fear of man or the fear of God? If we fear man more than we fear God, then we don't see God in truth. We see the Lord as less than a man—and this is proven by whose will we obey. A. W. Tozer said, "An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.