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title: "4 Religious Authority Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Israel's highest aspiration may be to be a light among the nations, but it is also a normal nation, where regular people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bari-weiss/israel-s-highest-aspiration-may-be-to-be-a-light-among-the-nations/)

[Bari Weiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bari-weiss/)

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> [There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/van-wyck-brooks/there-is-no-stopping-the-world-s-tendency-to-throw-off-imposed/)

[Van Wyck Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/van-wyck-brooks/)

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> [Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elaine-pagels/rediscovering-the-controversies-that-occupied-early-christianity/)

[Elaine Pagels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elaine-pagels/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/elaine-pagels-8423_authority_rediscovering-the-controversies-that-occ_1720155.jpg)

> [There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-durie/there-is-a-crisis-of-religious-authority-world-wide-and-there-are/)

[Mark Durie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-durie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/mark-durie-22706_authority_there-is-a-crisis-of-religious-authority_2237578.jpg)

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