Highest Church Authority

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

    Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    For often at Church I’ve seen the stained high glass
    Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
    The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)