Orson Pratt Quotes

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.

Next to the acknowledgement of the existence of a Deity, there is no one principle of greater importance in religion, than a realizing belief of the divine government and superintending the affairs of the universe, providence, and intimately concerned in whatever happens to mankind, both as nations and kingdoms, and as individuals.

… infinite wisdom had seen fit to put that people under a more excellent form of government, than any nation has ever had. God himself was their King. And they might have been long happy under a government, in which, the Ruler of the world condescended himself to execute the office of Chief-Magistrate. But such was their impiety and folly, that in many instances they greatly abused and perverted the privileges they were favoured with.

… in this state [a theocracy] the highest and only authority belonged to God, to whose worship all other things were made subservient.

Government was instituted by God to bring His laws to people and to carry out His will and purposes.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

God is the one who chooses our rulers.