Genuine authority knows that all immediacy is especially baneful in matters of authority. Genuine authority realizes that it can exist only in the service of him who alone has authority. Genuine authority knows that it is bound in the strictest sense by the saying of Jesus: ‘One is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren’ (Matt. 23.8). The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren.
