Highest Church Authority

Famous quotes containing the words highest, church and/or authority:

    “Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”
    —Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)

    “Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    “Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.”
    —Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)