his authority QUOTES

1 " Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home. "

― Gore Vidal

2 " Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. "

― Walter Benjamin , Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

3 " If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above "

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4 " 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 , Prayers for Oppa: From K-Pop to J-Pop, a Devotional for Performers & Their Fans

5 " Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. "

― Montesquieu , The Spirit of the Laws

6 " Crowds exhibit a docile respect for force, And are but slightly impressed by kindness, Which for them is scarcely other than a form of weakness. Their sympathies have never been bestowed upon easy going masters, but the tyrants who vigorously oppressed them. It is to these latter that they always erect the loftiest statues. It is true that they willingly trample on the despot whom they have stripped of his power, but it is because having lost his power he resumes his place among the feeble who are to be despised because they are not to be feared. The type of hero dear to a crowd will always have the semblance of a Caesar, His insignia attract them, His authority overawes them, and his sword instils them with fear. "

― Gustave Le Bon , سيكولوجية الجماهير

7 " The spirit of fornication and adultery robs a man of his authority in the spiritual realm. "

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8 " It is a proper and excellent thing for infinite glory to shine forth; and for the same reason, it is proper that the shining forth of God's glory should be complete; that is, that all parts of his glory should shine forth, that every beauty should be proportionably effulgent, that the beholder may have a proper notion of God.”
Thus it is necessary, that God's awful majesty, his authority and dreadful greatness, justice, and holiness, should be manifested. But this could not be, unless sin and punishment had been decreed; so that the shining forth of God's glory would be very imperfect, both because these parts of divine glory would not shine forth as the others do, and also the glory of his goodness, love, and holiness would be faint without them; nay, they could scarcely shine forth at all. "

― Jonathan Edwards , The Works Of Jonathan Edwards

9 " God isn’t asking you to fight the devil. He is asking you to simply uphold or sustain the victory won by
Jesus at Calvary and enforce his authority over the devil. You’re like the traffic warden who raises his hand and the vehicles stop. They don’t stop because he can physically bring the
vehicles to a halt, but because he is representing and upholding the authority of the state. "

― Pedro Okoro , The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!

10 " God structures his authority based on how he operates internally—that is, how each member of the trinity sees and interacts with each other. God never asks us to function in our obedience outside his personal examples. "

― Reid A. Ashbaucher , Made in the Image of God: Understanding the Nature of God and Mankind in a Changing World

11 " A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination. "

― Joseph Campbell , The Power of Myth

12 " Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things. "

― Robert Ferrigno , Sins of the Assassin (Assassin Trilogy #2)

13 " But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. "