Quotes about Authority

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

True worship is revealed by who we obey, not who we sing to.

The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Christ is known rightly nowhere but in Scripture.

The church of God can be established in no other way than by the Word.

The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pillar of the truth' unless she presides over the word of God. We, on the other hand, assert that it is because she reverently subjects herself to the word of God that the truth is preserved by her and passed on to others by her hands.

Holding firmly to the principle that true religion is founded upon obedience.