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
  • Authority
  • Vote

• 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

• There are still many questions about how law enforcement responded to the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.To get some answers, media organizations, including NPR, have asked for tapes of the 911 calls and other recordings. So far, authorities have not released that audio, only edited transcripts. Doing more, they say, would re-victimize the survivors.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • Answers
  • Authority
  • Enforcement

• When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Drama
  • Western
  • Dilemma

• Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.

  

  William Monahan
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Stars

• The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Children
  • Care
  • Rich

• I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

  

  Bayazid Bastami
  • Desire
  • Ignorant
  • Autonomy

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

  

  John Calvin
  • Authority
  • Holy Spirit
  • Venture