John Winthrop Quotes

It is you who have called us unto this office; but being thus called we have our authority from God;

God is the one who chooses our rulers.

I am appointed by God to save my country.

Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and the end of government ... therefore government itself is a venerable ordinance of God

Do I believe God raises up authority? Do I believe he sets one up and puts one down?... I don't believe that just for Trump, I believe that had Hillary been in. I believe that for Obama.

I'm not a prophet. I'm the leader of Israel.

Political power, considered in general, not descending in particular to monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, comes directly from God alone.

I believe God wants me to be President.

We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects.

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

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we are living now and where we are living, I absolutely think we were all born to lead.

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves

Let every person be obedient to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. ... the authority does not bear the sword in vain! It is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer

Government is a trust from God, and verily government will be at the day of resurrection a cause of inquiry, unless he who hath taken it be worthy of it and have acted justly and done good.

The enthronement showed that the Emperor had assumed the reins of government with the benevolent heart of his ancestors and became the basis of the belief we have kept in our hearts and minds for thousands of years: namely that our majesty is a deity and a living God.

First of all things, learn to know and love that God to who ye have a double obligation; first, that He made you a man; and next that He made you a little God to sit on his throne and rule over other men.

One who takes on the humiliation of the State Is called a Ruler: worthy of offering sacrifices to the gods of earth millet; One who takes on himself the calamity of the State Is called a King: worthy of dominion over the entire Empire.

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

Now God has chosen me to be king over the entire world. What I do, I must do, because God has ordained me. Dear brothers and sisters, let us now give thanks to God.