Quotes about Authority

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Committees can criticize, but they cannot create.

O'Captain, My Captain.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless — and particularly so as regards the future — has, in our society, become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.

No child, not even the most ordinary, forgets or forgives a single one of the commands inflicted on it.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth.

TO understand the meaning of womanhood we have to start with God. If He is indeed "Creator of all things visible and invisible" He is certainly in charge of all things, visible and invisible, stupendous and miniscule, magnificent and trivial. God has to be in charge of details if He is going to be in charge of the overall design.

If He is God, He is still in charge.

In order to be a disciple we must deny ourselves—this is to exercise authority over our own spirit. We must take up the cross—this is to submit to Christ's authority. And we must follow—this is continued obedience. This is the road not to confinement, to bondage, to a stunted or arrested development, but to total personal freedom. It means not death but life, not a narrowly circumscribed life but "abundant" life.