Quotes about Authority
Unsteadiness in family government is productive of great harm, in fact is nearly as bad as no government at all. The question is often asked, Why are the children of religious parents so often headstrong, defiant, and rebellious? The reason is to be found in the home training. Too often the parents are not united in their family government.
- Ellen White
Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The two things that make you a good head coach in this league are if you can get the players to respect you and if you can come across with a clear, consistent message.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
Men are the spiritual heads of their families.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
There is an economy in Heaven. There are cities in Heaven, and there are people who lead and people who don't lead, people who are rewarded and people who are not rewarded.
- Bruce Wilkinson
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
- George W. Bush
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
- George Washington
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- George Washington
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington
DO NOT USURP MY ROLE in people's lives, no matter how much you long to help them. Learn from Me: Because I have all authority in heaven and on earth, I could rescue or control anyone at will, yet I wanted them to be free to love Me—or not. Restrain your urges to solve people's problems; instead, use your time and energy to listen to them and pray for them.
- Sarah Young
The most significant passage in the Bible about the Bible is not, however, those two poignant New Testament passages that have given to us words such as inspiration (2 Tim 3:14-17; 2 Pet 1:20-21). Rather, it is Psalm 119, and it can be read as the Bible's view of the Bible.
- Scot McKnight