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You are the steer of your God given dreams. By the authority from the Holy Spirit of God, you will able to bend a curve where the road has a bend; you will be able to reverse your movement when the need be.

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation. As long as man loves a phantom in the sky more than he loves his fellow man, there will never be peace upon this earth; so long as man worships a Tyrant as the "Fatherhood of God," there will never be a "Brotherhood of Man." You must make the choice, you must come to the decision. Is it to be God or Man? Churches or Homes—preparation for death or happiness for the living? If ever man needed an example of the benefit of the one against the other, he need but read the pages of history for proof of how religion retarded progress and provoked hatred among the children of men. When theology ruled the world, man was a slave. The people lived in huts and hovels. They were clad in rags and skins; they devoured crusts and gnawed bones; the priests wore garments of silk and satin; carried mitres of gold and precious stones, robbed the poor and lived upon the fat of the land! Here and there a brave man appeared to question their authority. These martyrs to intellectual emancipation slowly and painfully broke the spell of superstition and ushered in the Age of Reason and the Dawn of Science. Man became the only god that man can know. He no longer fell upon his knees in fear. He began to enjoy the fruits of his own labor. He discovered a way to relieve himself from the drudgery of continuous toil; he began to enjoy a few comforts of life—and for the first time upon this earth he found a few moments for happiness. It is far more important to learn how to live than to learn how to pray. A new day and a new era dawned for him. His labors produced enormous dividends. He looked at the sky for the first time and saw that it was blue! He searched the heavens and found no God. He no longer feared the manifestations of nature.

You have authority in your mouth, hence don't need to be afraid; but rather positively affirm!

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who’s under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him

You see, I have trouble with authority. Whenever someone tells me to do something, I get the sudden and very strong urge to do the exact opposite. Sometimes I can control it. But mostly I just lose.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

A lot of nonwhite people in America know what it's like to feel heat from the authorities, but, you know, all sorts of people can start to feel it now if Trump comes in.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Another reform I`m proposing is the passage of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant. The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed. And they will go fast, believe me. They`re going to go.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

Authority is quite degrading.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Authority does not equal competency.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).