Authority Quote by Walter M. Miller, Jr

“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.”

— Gabriel Chevallier

No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which…

— George Whitefield

“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy…

— Harper Lee

Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

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 reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

— G. Campbell Morgan

“An educated woman carries herself with a humble, quiet grace, yet her presence is powerful. She does not feel as thou she needs to…

— Daniel Whyte III

The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or…

— Jimmy Carter

“I saw how Jesus didn’t treat women any differently than men, and I liked that. We weren’t too precious for words, dainty like fine…

— Sarah Bessey

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

— Charles Simeon

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing…

— John Chrysostom