Quotes about Rulership

But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.

They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

“I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

Being ruled by anything other than God is something God takes quite seriously. And so should I. I don't want to live as an enemy to the cross of Christ. In other words, I don't want to live resistant to the power Christ's death and resurrection provides for me just because I can't walk away from my unhealthy cravings.

No matter how much territory the wolf conquers the lion will still rule the jungle.

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.