Quotes about Rule

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Do you know what that word reign means? It means, "time in power." God said we're to reign how long? In life. That means as long as you're alive that is your time in power.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. COLOSSIANS 3:15

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

Notice how Christ uses that word deny twice. He said to Peter the first time, "Deny himself" (Matthew 16:24); He said to Peter the second time, "Thou shalt deny me" (Matthew 26:34). It is either of the two. There is no other choice for us; we must either deny self or deny Christ. There are two great powers fighting each other the self-nature in the power of sin, and Christ in the power of God. Either of these must rule within us.