Authority Quote by John Calvin Download Open image “Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?” — John Calvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Copernicus Holy Holy spirit Scary Spirit Venture
“Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? [Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism… — Abraham Calovius Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth. — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
“Some of the men to whom Copernicus communicated his theory were German Lutherans, but when Luther came to know of it, he was profoundly shocked. ‘People give ear,’ he said, ‘to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“So the role of the Holy Spirit is not to bring God's presence to the world, but to reveal it.” — Henry T. Blackaby Copy Share Image
He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“You can extend your heart to the Holy Spirit today. Let Him take you by the hand — and He will safely guide you… — Rick Renner Copy Share Image
The choice will be to fully trust in Christ or the setting of the Anti-Christ system. — David Wilkerson Copy Share
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
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