For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.
—John Flavel
Every person must remember that political borders and the multitude of governmental authorities are human creations, and that before God we are all inhabitants of one and the same Earth and all subject to God’s law, not some human authority.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
—Voltaire
When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority.
—Laozi
For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.
—John Flavel
One ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ ought to have more weight and authority with us, than a thousand arguments.
—John Newton
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
—Cicero
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
—Socrates
The evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day–until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
—Sigmund Freud
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
—Nikolai Gogol
So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
—John Locke
So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
—John Locke