Authority Quote by Saint Augustine

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his…

— Charles Hodge

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost…

— Charles Hodge

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole…

— Saint Augustine

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

— Thomas Aquinas

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice;…

— Charles Hodge

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

— Otis Moss III

Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

— Charles Hodge

“authority of the church. It was created to counter the drift from this important doctrinal foundation by”

— R.C. Sproul

“For the civil government can give no new right to the church, nor the church to the civil government. So that, whether the magistrate…

— John Locke

Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the…

— Elisabeth Elliot

The church is a gift from God, some assembly is required.

— Anonymous