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

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The wisest have the most authority.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

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.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

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.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Be the chief but never the lord.

I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

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.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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.

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

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

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

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

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

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

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.

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.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

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.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

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

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.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.