Top 39 A Higher Authority Quotes
#1. God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.
Edward T. Welch
#2. Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.
Lee Greenwood
#3. Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we're not in form to learn lessons. We're here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.
S. Kelley Harrell
#4. I agree
the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort. (53)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#5. And the Vatican, whatever anyone else might have thought on the subject, answered, like Hebrew National hot dogs, to "a higher authority.
Anonymous
#6. People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.
Peace Pilgrim
#7. Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.
R.C. Sproul
#8. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#9. It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
Saint Basil
#10. The problem isn't that people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs.
Susan Sontag
#11. Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
John Ortberg
#12. Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
Isaac Marion
#13. The oldest rule in the book is that you can delegate authority, but never responsibility - not even to higher authority.
Taylor Anderson
#14. The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.
Jean Edward Smith
#16. Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But
Charles J. Chaput
#17. Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often died by the motto, 'Order first, then law will follow.
Thomas W. Knowles
#18. If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.
Kenneth Branagh
#19. They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
Roy Moore
#20. People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.
Orrin Woodward
#21. A true Lutheran relies on God's Word and would not worry about it even if the whole world mocked and despised him for it. He does not consider the world an authority in religious matters. He rests his faith on higher authority:
C.F.W. Walther
#22. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]
Thomas Jefferson
#23. There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
T.D. Jakes
#24. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.
Anais Nin
#27. Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.
Ravi Zacharias
#28. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
William H. Seward
#29. That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
Charles Babbage
#30. Joining the church felt like joining a secret club; and you learned the rules after you joined. The first rule of the church was: Never question what it is that you have joined.
Stephen White
#31. When we commit our lives to the Lord,
He lives in us, He gives us grace and power to accomplish far greater things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. Its not a dead end if it takes you some were you needed to go.
Joe Bradford
#34. My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
Noam Chomsky
#35. You can't get away from yourself, or can you? So why are you trying to...
O. Stephen Peart
#36. I really didn't think this was going to happen. I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don't happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#37. I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
Erica Goros
#38. Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.
Cesar Millan
#39. In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
Wilhelm, Ostwald
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