Quotes about Authority

We are not free to pick and choose the parts of the Bible we want to believe or obey. God has given us all of it, and we should be obedient to all of it.

What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, "Lord, You are going to be my authority"? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.

The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live... it is our instructor.

True Christianity finds all of its doctrines in the Bible; true Christianity does not deny any part of the Bible; true Christianity does not add anything to the Bible. For many centuries the Bible has been the most available book on the earth. It has no hidden purpose. It cannot be destroyed.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

All of us have the potential to be an Absalom, and all of us have the potential to be a David. Absalom felt rejected by his father, David, so he took revenge by seeking to usurp his father's sphere of authority. David felt rejected by Absalom, but he allowed that rejection to keep him soft and crying out to God.

In my name they will drive out demons… they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.

The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority.

We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.