Highest Church Authority

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

    “It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There was on old person of Fratton
    Who went to church with his hat on.
    “If I wake up,” he said,
    “With my hat on my head,
    I shall know that it hasn’t been sat on.””
    —Anonymous.

    “O, what authority and show of truth
    Can cunning sin cover itself withal!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)