High Offices

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or offices:

“By a high star our course is set,
Our end is Life. Put out to sea.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

“The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, ‘tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)