I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Evangelicals can’t be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.