Quotes about Authority
When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders
- Craig Groeschel
In that moment, my heavenly Father said, "You are not who others say you are. You are who I say you are. And I say you are called to ministry.
- Craig Groeschel
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
- DH Lawrence
The Lord hadn't forgotten Elizabeth, nor had he tarried in answering her prayer without a good purpose. He chose her—an older woman with an unproven womb—in order to display his power, his might, his authority. And he blessed her to honor her faithfulness. The truth is, God's strength is fully revealed when our strength is depleted.
- Liz Curtis Higgs
The quality which gave such force to Calvin's teaching was his close adherence to the Bible as an inspired and authoritative book.
- Loraine Boettner
We followed the Three Steps to Hearing God that I had first learned from Joy Dawson in New Zealand. First, we took Christ's authority to silence the enemy. Second, we asked the Lord to clear from our minds any presumptions and preconceived ideas. Third, we waited…believing He would speak in the way and in the time that He chose.
- Loren Cunningham
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people and our country want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.
- Jimmy Carter
Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.
- John Maxwell
Presence is a result of confidence. Presence... when we see it we feel it.
- John Maxwell
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
- Catherine of Siena
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
- John Calvin