Spiritual Authority

Famous quotes containing the words spiritual authority, spiritual and/or authority:

“The true shepherd of his flock, the majesty of whose spiritual authority awed even the unscrupulous enemy.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“There is spiritual laughter
Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
Of angels.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to,—for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well,—is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)