Spiritual Authority Quotes

#1. Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

John Ortberg

#2. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.

Gary Rohrmayer

#3. Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Thea Harris

#4. Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

John Ortberg

#5. When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor's voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.

Stormie O'martian

#6. It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

Basilea Schlink

#7. His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

Chris Matthews

#8. Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.

Harold Bloom

#9. An "apostle" [is] one who is called and sent by Christ to have the spiritual authority, character, gifts and abilities to successfully reach and establish people in Kingdom truth and order, especially through founding and overseeing local churches.

David Cannistraci

#10. When you confer spiritual authority on another person, you must realize that you are allowing them to pick your pocket and sell you your own watch. How

Alan W. Watts

#11. Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point, how he should live; and living well, how he should teach; and teaching rightly, with what kind of self-examination he should learn of his own weakness.

Gregory The Great

#12. Intimacy is a key to greater spiritual authority and power. We need to grow in intimacy to be able to demonstrate God's Will on earth "as it is in heaven" effectively. To the degree that His presence and glory influence us, we will influence those around us.

Paul Yadao

#13. Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.

Shoshana Zuboff

#14. The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.

Don Wilton

#15. Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

Gary Zukav

#17. The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing

Pedro Okoro

#18. Once you know your Soul, you are never again subject to give your authority away. You own your truth directly and with certainty.

Elisa Romeo

#19. As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.

Pankaj Mishra

#20. The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. The spirit of fornication and adultery robs a man of his authority in the spiritual realm.

Sunday Adelaja

#23. If one attains awareness of own's own Self's authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#24. You can exercise your authority as a
believer because you are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places.

Pedro Okoro

#25. What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone's worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has.

Dada Bhagwan

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

Sunday Adelaja

#27. What position is nobler than that of a spiritual father who claims no authority and yet is universally esteemed, whose word is given only as tender advice, but is allowed to operate with the force of law?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#28. Intercession is speaking and singing God's heart back to Him. He has made His plans and purposes known to us in His Word. We are to discern His will and call it forth in faith and partnership with Him, and He answers by stretching out His hand in authority.

Anna Blanc

#29. Your authority as a believer comes from Jesus's triumph over the enemy.

Pedro Okoro

#30. As a believer, you have the authority to tell the devil what to do in the name of Jesus

Pedro Okoro

#31. The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

H.L. Mencken

#32. As a born-again child of God, you have absolute authority over the devil through Jesus Christ.

Pedro Okoro

#33. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Marianne Williamson

#34. Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#35. A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.

Tony Evans

#36. You've got to always remember that the devil is a defeated foe. The battle has been won. You don't need to fight him. So what do you do? You simply stand and exercise your authority. All you've got to do is exercise your authority.

Pedro Okoro

#37. Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

Richard Rohr

#38. The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.

John Andreas Widtsoe