1 Chronicles 29:12 (NLT) Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength.
Daniel 4:17 (NLT) For this has been decreed by the messengers; it is commanded by the holy ones, so that everyone may know that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world. He gives them to anyone he chooses— even to the lowliest of people.”
1 Timothy 6:15 (NLT) For at just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only almighty God, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords.
Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV) 6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Although church and state stand separate, the political order cannot be renewed without theological virtues working upon it.... It is from the church that we receive our fundamental postulates of order, justice, and freedom, applying them to our civil society. Russell Kirk (1918- ) Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.
