Quotes about Authority
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
- Roger Williams
The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all.
- Reinhard Bonnke
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
- John Wycliffe
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
- St. John Chrysostom
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
- Frank Herbert
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
- Catherine Booth
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
- William Howard Taft
Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
- Charles Colson
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
- Roger Williams
Those who overcome satan will be required to use the power of the spoken Word.
- TB Joshua
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power.
- CS Lewis