Biblical Authority Quotes

#1. If we cannot speak with confidence about biblical authority, what ground have we for challenging the reigning plausibility structure?

Lesslie Newbigin

#2. As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

Adam Hamilton

#3. Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Deepak Chopra

#4. The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Jon Meacham

#5. A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.

Tony Evans

#6. Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#7. Deep is the well of the past.

Thomas Mann

#8. In the karmic worldview, you are queer because of karma, and it may be a boon or curse. In the one-life worldview, you are queer because you choose to be so, to express your individuality or to defy authority (Greek mythology) or God/Devil wills it so (biblical mythology).

Devdutt Pattanaik

#9. Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

Constant Lambert

#10. It takes 42 muscles to smile. Instead pick up your middle finger and say bite me!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Conscientiousness comprises industriousness, self-control, stick-to-itiveness, and a desire for order.

Daniel J. Levitin

#12. There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.

Lauren Weisberger

#13. you cannot "save" a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church - scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.

Ed Stetzer

#14. You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your children, they will in turn leave the nest with an absence of stress and turmoil for all concerned.

Wayne W. Dyer

#15. Most students don't trust their own insights and questions when they are reading a biblical assignment. They expect that there must be a point, a right reading that they're missing, and that they don't have the authority to suggest any other interpretation.

Timothy Beal

#16. I hate it when she quotes Scripture. Who can talk back to the Bible?

Adrian Fogelin

#17. I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Winston Churchill

#18. Every lying thought bears in itself a proof of its falsehood. This proof is its deadly effect upon the heart;

John Of Kronstadt

#19. To make a very specific car only for India - where you don't know where the segments are tomorrow or will it shift - is tough.

Winfried Vahland

#20. The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

Bruce Barton

#21. Edges are magic, too; there's a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it.

Ali Smith

#22. A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.

Steven D. Levitt

#23. Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]

Abraham Calovius

#24. The vision that we and the Rothschilds have for India is to link Indian fields to the world and put the produce, as fresh as it can be, on Western tables in 4-5 days.

Sunil Mittal