Quotes about Authority

Thomas's procedure, then, may be summarized in three steps: (1) Fulfilled prophecies and miracles make it credible that the Scriptures taken together as a whole are a revelation from God. (2) As a revelation from God, Scripture is absolutely authoritative. (3) Therefore, those doctrines taught by Scripture that are neither demonstrably provable nor empirically evident may be accepted by faith on the authority of Scripture.

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

God will not move unless I say it. Why? because He has made us coworkers with Him. He set things up that way.

No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.

The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.

Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

When God says something, the argument is over.

Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.