Quotes about Authority
You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Don't wait around waiting for God to do something that He's already given you the power to do.
- Joyce Meyer
You are under-qualified for the job of God.
- Timothy Keller
Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."
- David Platt
God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
- RC Sproul
Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?
- Tony Evans
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
- St. Basil
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
- Elie Wiesel
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.
- John Owen
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
- Beth Moore
The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else
- Mark Batterson
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
- Dennis Prager