Quotes about Authority

God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear.

The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Kids have anger, emotional, drug, and authority problems because they come from broken homes or homes that have been filled with violence. They have come from homes without a father and with a mother who is often angry at all men because she was abandoned by her man.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.

Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

Jesus wants men who will rule well.