Gary North Quotes

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

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

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.

To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.

Do not believe a creature against his creator.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

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

When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

You are a little god on earth running around.

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

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

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

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

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

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.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.