Quotes about Authority

The Scriptures are called God's utterances or God's oracles (Rom 3:2).

To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

faciamque in eis ultiones magnas arguens in furore et scient quia ego Dominus cum dedero vindictam meam super eos

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

As it has always been, so shall it ever be. The King is on his throne and is in control.

Jude 1:24-25 says, 'And now, all glory to God, who is able to keep you from stumbling, and who will bring you into His glorious presence innocent of sin and with great joy. All glory to Him, who alone is God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Yes, glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to Him, in the beginning, now, and forevermore. Amen.

W. S. Plumer said, "We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, 'I have sinned'; but the returning prodigal said, 'I have sinned against heaven and before thee'; and David said, 'Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.