Robert Jeffress Quotes

The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

Inhale to the Chief

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

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

God save the king!

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

As sons obey their father and wives obey their husbands, so should citizens obey their rulers.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

I know the title of a King is a glorious title, but assure yourself that the shining glory of princely authority hath not so dazzled the eyes of our understanding, but that we well know and remember that we also are to yield an account of our actions before the Great Judge.

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society.

The mass of the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; so it is presumption and contempt to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that.

As an absolute Queen I cannot submit to orders, nor can I submit to the laws of the land without injury to myself, the King my son, and all other sovereign princes.