John Calvin Quotes

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

John Calvin

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Act
  • Vote
  • Authority

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Nothing
  • Venture
  • Gained

• Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Moral
  • Authority
  • Lot

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• My unrestrained commitment of myself to God gives the Holy Spirit the opportunity to grant to me the holiness of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Jesus

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Authority
  • Dictatorship
  • Betrayed

• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Government
  • Artist

• The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Space
  • Service

• I thank You, Jesus, that You brought into my heart God's love through the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Father, that Your love in me is stronger than my hatred.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Heart
  • Father

• In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

  

  Kim Young-sam
  • Law
  • Lost
  • President

• When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Justice
  • Authority
  • Tyranny

• Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • World
  • Daily
  • Lucky

• To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Authority

• After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

  

  Augustus
  • Power
  • Authority
  • Colleagues

• It is well known, widely known that the US President-elect [Donald Trump] has publicly spoken in favour of normalising Russian-American relations. We cannot but support this. Of course, we understand that it will not be an easy job, taking into account the degree to which Russian-American relations have degraded. But we are ready to cover our part of the way.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Support
  • President
  • Easy

• Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.

  

  Asa Baber
  • Strength
  • Flaws
  • Fibers

• Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

  

  John Calvin
  • Authority
  • Holy Spirit
  • Venture