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The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God. -- David A. Bednar
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe. -- Orson Pratt
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God. -- Angelo Scola
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. -- Orson Pratt
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot. -- Terry Hayes
Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it. -- Monica Johnson
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. -- Mitt Romney
You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher. -- Charles Stanley
The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge. -- James E. Faust
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. -- Charles Hodge
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. -- Jon Meacham
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him. -- John Wycliffe
The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be. -- Ken Ham
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority -- Orson Pratt
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority. -- Orson Pratt
When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself. -- John Bevere
Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority. -- Max Anders
The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority. -- Alistair Begg
God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority. -- Tony Evans
You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. -- John Piper
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority. -- John Calvin
The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. -- John Bevere
For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. -- Mary McCarthy
It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under Godâ??s authority. -- K.P. Yohannan
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous. -- James Dobson
God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time. -- Kirk Cameron
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. -- Ted Nelson
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. --
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. -- Saint Basil
Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God. -- L. Tom Perry
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. -- R. C. Sproul
Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority. -- R. C. Sproul
What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God! -- Vance Havner
The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God. -- Joyce Meyer
Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation -- Lou Engle
The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. -- George Mason
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove. -- Robert A. Heinlein
We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace. -- John Bevere
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. -- Dana Gould
When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in. -- Sam Roberts
Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word. -- T. B. Joshua
It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire -- John L. Dagg
Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight. -- Adrian Rogers
I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word. -- Billy Graham
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God. -- G. C. Berkouwer
Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours. -- Margaret Feinberg
It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis. -- Ken Ham
Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end. -- Joshua
To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God. -- R. C. Sproul
When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results. -- Steven J Lawson
To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority. -- Graham Kendrick
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves, -- Ann Druyan
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God." -- Steven Curtis Chapman
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard. -- John Calvin
God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it. -- Pope Paul III
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. -- R. C. Sproul
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast. -- Plutarch
We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name. -- Mark Driscoll
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority. -- T. D. Jakes
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word. -- Raymond Franz
Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life. -- Jesse Duplantis
God is lovingly guiding our lives, and we can be confident of His authority over any situation we may face. He never allows anything to happen without a reason. -- Teresa Santoski

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