Quotes about Hierarchy

Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

Some of the fathers were of opinion that every believer has his guardian angel. This subject needs no hot debate. It may suffice us to know the whole hierarchy of angels is employed for the good of the saints.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

Thus marriage, like the Trinity, is a hierarchical partnership. While all parties are equal in value, essence, and significance, there is a distinction in function (hierarchy) in order to fulfill God's kingdom agenda in history.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

But that was not the Royal Way; the King's servants didn't have to stoop.

As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at sea, they first go through such a string of silly bowings and scrapings, such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be much right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all. As

If you are not royalty, He is not King.