Quotes about Authority
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
— CS Lewis
I am a servant, taking orders and receiving orders. What God tells me, I say, and what He shows me, I see. His will must always supersede.
— TB Joshua
What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
— Vance Havner
When someone gets up and says that the Bible is not the word of God, I really don't care what their point is. That, to me, is apostasy.
— Greg Laurie
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
— JC Ryle
The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
— JC Ryle
It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
— Martin Luther
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
— NT Wright
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
— RC Sproul
A mother is God's deputy on earth.
— Rahel Varnhagen
God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.
— Alistair Begg