"Authority is like soap, the more you use……" — Mark Dever
"Authority is like soap, the more you use it the less you will have of it."
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28 Quotes by Mark Dever
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If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional,…
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Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.
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Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.
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Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.
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A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's…
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The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to…
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Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
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For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.
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If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question…
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When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing…
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Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it…
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Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John…
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More Authority Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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