Quotes about Authority
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
— Ambrose of Milan
I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
— George H. W. Bush
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
— George Washington
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
— John Adams
God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear.
— Tony Evans
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
— William Booth
Kids have anger, emotional, drug, and authority problems because they come from broken homes or homes that have been filled with violence. They have come from homes without a father and with a mother who is often angry at all men because she was abandoned by her man.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation
— Karl Barth
Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.
— Karl Barth
Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.
— John Milton
Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
— Pope John Paul II
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
— Publilius Syrus