Quotes about Authority

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.

There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

Mr. Severe's place was filled by a Mr. Hopkins. He was a very different man. He was less cruel, less profane, and made less noise, than Mr. Severe. His course was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty. He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. He was called by the slaves a good overseer.

But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.