Quotes about Authority

God, if You say I'm blessed then I believe I'm blessed. My checkbook may not say I'm blessed. The economy may not say I'm blessed. The medical report doesn't say I'm blessed. But God, I know You have the ultimate authority. Since You say I'm blessed, my report is I am blessed.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

As ambassadors of Jesus Christ, they were consumed with the task given to them by God. Any authority and influence they had were not their own, or even connected to their brilliance or dynamic leadership strategies. Rather, they were servants of the King. Their allegiance was to his priorities, and they discerned the many ways they could walk in obedience to show and share the gospel in a world of great need.

You cannot "save" a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church—scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.

We don't own mission, and it is not ours to define.

You can preach heresy at a lot of churches, and people will not object. Leaders can lead double lives, and people will let it be. But, change the order of service, and it's time for a fight.

You can move a leader's feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.