Quotes about Authority
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
- James Madison
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
- Leonard Ravenhill
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
- Alexander Hamilton
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.
- Paulo Coelho
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
- Andrew Carnegie
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
- Mortimer Adler
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
- Andy Stanley
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.
- John Calvin
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
- Aristotle
And when Adam and Eve submitted unto Satan they are the ones that empowered Satan. In a sense Man made Satan. God created Lucifer but Man made Satan.
- Andrew Wommack
Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.
- TB Joshua