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If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
Question authority; but, raise your hand first.
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.
Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race
The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.
My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
Over time, Benedictine monasteries appeared around the world, always with the same anomaly: brothers living in obedience, meditation, and faith just beneath the rush of the world.
For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.
Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.
Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.
Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
There is no substitute for obedience to the commands and demands of the gospel, of doing what we are supposed to do as disciples of Jesus Christ. We can never truly be happy or have great hope unless we follow Heavenly Father's plan for our happiness.
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.
Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.
Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.
Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.
Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.
The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found
