Quotes about Authority

Can I come right out and say it? It's time for church leaders to really lead.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

Jesus found His identity in Scripture and always directed these people to the Scriptures and the prophecies that spoke of Him.

submitting to authority is never for evil, but always for blessing.

In order not to hold a frame with someone, you have to be intimidated by them.

The only One who has a right to shape our lives is Jesus Christ. We must determine to allow nothing and no one to shape us, not even our personal experiences, unless they are consistent with the promises of God.

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free...

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. —EPHESIANS 6:12

Great power involves great responsibility

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.