Quotes about Authority

And the Son is ordered to demand this authority so that He might actually show reverence toward the Father and His inexpressible humility.

A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to every one.

No matter how insignificant the little office may be, they take a foot though they do not have an inch,73 and always want to be God themselves when they ought to be God's maid.

Scripture alone is the true lord and master of all writings and doctrine on earth.

And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?

Even if those in authority are evil or without faith, nevertheless the authority and its power is good and from God…. Therefore, where there is power and where it flourishes, there it is and there it remains because God has ordained it.

For He has His strength in His mouth, not a sword in His hand.

On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that they too may understand that they are tyrants, and their laws useless for justification, nay that they had no right to establish such laws.

How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.

You are commanded to get angry, not on your own behalf, but on behalf of your office and of God; you must not confuse the two, your person and your office.

The Ten Commandments have no right to condemn that conscience in which Jesus dwells, for Jesus has taken from the Ten Commandments the right and power to curse us.

all the popes, monks and priests were to fuse all the matter of their preaching into one mass, they would not even then teach and present as much as St.