Quotes about Authority
The spirit and the manner of the Chief Shepherd should be the one adopted by the undershepherds.
- Dallas Willard
Mark 12 lists every dimension under the governance of Jesus' love.
- Dallas Willard
The missing note in evangelical life today is not in the first instance spirituality but rather obedience. We have generated a variety of religion to which obedience is not regarded as essential.
- Dallas Willard
We demean God by considering him a cosmic boss who orders humans around
- Dallas Willard
Recall, now, that the kingdom of God is the range of his effective will: that is, it is the domain where what he prefers is actually what happens.
- Dallas Willard
God wants us to participate in the governance of his kingdom.
- Dallas Willard
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
- Alexander Hamilton
I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.
- Zendaya
But, my dear boy, you don't eat or drink the law, or sit in the shade of it or warm yourself by it, or wear it, or have your being in it. The law exists only to serve.
- Wendell Berry
In the army, you dont ask what you are going to do: you just do it. In fact, the way to get along in any army is never even to wonder why they want something done or what they are going to do with it after it's finished, but just do it and then get out of sight so that they cant just happen to see you by accident and then think up something for you to do, but instead they will have to have thought up something to be done, and then hunt for somebody to do it.
- William Faulkner
To be a son or daughter of God also means you are royalty. This is the greatest of privileges, but it is also an awesome responsibility. If you are truly thankful to God and want to please Him with all your heart, you must do more than just recognize your own authority. You must use it. He asks you to give love as freely as you have received it— not just to those who deserve it but also to everyone He puts in front of you.
- Heidi Baker
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. —PSALM 2:8
- Heidi Baker