Authority Quote by John Tillotson

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but…

— Alexander MacLaren

“Each act of obedience by the Christian is a modest proof, unequivocal for all its imperfection, of the reality of what he attests."1”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“To be called to a life of extraordinary quality, to live up to it, and yet to be unconscious of it is indeed a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts…

— Bertrand Russell

“For those who have set themselves in array against the Godhead of Christ, do not scruple to utter their ungrateful ravings against us.”

— Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

“The office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord’s flock has especially this duty assigned to it by Christ, namely, to guard with…

— Pope Pius X

“The office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord’s flock has especially this duty assigned to it by Christ, namely, to guard with…

— Pope Pius X

“He shall also judge those who give rise to schisms, who are destitute of the love of God, and who look to their own…

— The Church Fathers

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the…

— Samuel Johnson

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

— Friedrich Schiller

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness.…

— Timothy Keller

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over…

— Thomas Jefferson