Quotes about Authority
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.
- Lewis Sperry Chafer
The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.
- Beth Moore
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
- CS Lewis
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
- St. Augustine
The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.
- G Campbell Morgan
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.
- John Milton
It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.
- Anne Hutchinson
A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.
- Martin Luther
Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne
- Charles Spurgeon
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
- St. Francis Of Assisi