Divine Authority Quotes

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

I do not call majesty that pomp which surrounds kings or that exterior magnificence which dazzles the vulgar. That is but the reflection of majesty and not majesty itself. Majesty is the image of the grandeur of God in the prince.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry 'There is no God but God' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle…. Establishing the Islamic state world-wide belong to the great goals of the revolution.

Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.

I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers—at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the Children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry

The Church not only prescribes for her children to obey state power regardless of the convictions and faith of its bearers, but also prays for it.

O kings, exercise your power then boldly, for it is divine and salutary for human kind, but exercise it with humility. You are endowed with it from without. At bottom it leaves you feeble, it leaves you mortal, it leaves you sinners, and charges you before God with a very heavy account.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

The reaction of people of faith to this tendency of democracy to obscure the divine authority behind government should not be resignation to it, but the resolution to combat it as effectively as possible…. The Lord…did justice – through His minister, the state.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have. Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope.

Government “for the people” should be called a government of God rather than of men.