Quotes about Hierarchy

And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.

And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.

And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.

And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.

And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.

And indisputably, the lesser is blessed by the greater.

In almost any group of people you'll find hierarchy. When groups of adults form in the real world, it's generally for some common purpose, and the leaders end up being those who are best at it. The problem with most schools is, they have no purpose. But hierarchy there must be. And so the kids make one out of nothing.

The order of the commandments thus gives some insight into Israel's hierarchy of values. Roughly speaking, the order was God, family, life, sex, property. It is sobering, looking at that order, that in modern society (in its debased Western form at least) we have almost exactly reversed that order of values. Money and sex matter a lot more than human life, the family is scorned in theory and practice, and God is the last thing in most people's thinking, let alone priorities.

God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men

Each angel is inferior or superior to every other angel. From the fact that angels are pure spirits it logically follows that they are unequal.

There is no equality among angels

There's an order to life: God in Christ, Christ in man, man over woman, and woman over children. When this order is broken or violated, you have 'hell' on earth.