I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.
[first lines] Author: It is an extremely common mistake. People think the writer's imagination is always at work, that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes; that he simply dreams up his stories out of thin air. In poi...
As a parent, you have authority because God calls you to be an authority in your child's life. You have the authority to act on behalf of God. As a father or mother, you do not exercise rule over your jurisdiction, but over God's. You act at his comm...
Even though Sam wasn't a romance author, he knew all the big ones, the heavy hitters and those that had crossed genres. He was greeted by most of the authors, some he knew and others who wanted to meet the famous author. Needless to say the romance g...
The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and resplendent power of earthly rulers. Ultimately all authority on earth must serve only the authority of Jesus Christ over humankin...
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author.
People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.
Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual purs...
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
If you wish to know what a man is, put him in authority.
Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
