Priesthood Quotes - Page 7

• I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

  Jonathan Cain

  Dream, Musician, Abandoned

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• One of the topics that [Pope Francis] wants to raise, according to many Vatican analysts, is given the shortage of - worldwide shortage of priests is the possibility of a married priesthood. But he needs more backing from his bishops right now.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Want, Topics, Needs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

  Noam Chomsky

  Berlin, Red, Bureaucracy

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• God loves all of His children. He has provided a plan for His children to enjoy the choicest blessings that He has to offer in eternity. Those choicest blessings are associated with marriage between a man and a woman by appropriate priesthood authority to bring together a family unit for creation and happiness in this life and in the life to come.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.

  Stephen Curry

  Boys, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Blessing, Giving

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• The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Plato, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

  James McAvoy

  Girl, Missionary, Lost

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Rights, Long

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• Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

  M. Russell Ballard

  Husband, Wife, Husband Wife

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• Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Father, Voice, Want

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.31, Random House

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• I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

  Anandi Gopal Joshi

  Women, People, Religion

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• The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood.

  Paul Halmos

  Self, Littles, Today

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• Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Powerful, Expression, People

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• Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Missionary, Duty, Missionary Service

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• There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here, and were obedient; more or less, to the laws that were given us there. Those who were faithful in all things there received greater blessings here, and those who were not faithful received less

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Blessing, Men, Law

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• NO NEUTRALS IN HEAVEN. There were no neutrals in the war in heaven. All took sides either with Christ or with Satan. Every man had his agency there, and men receive rewards here based upon their actions there, just as they will receive rewards hereafter for deeds done in the body. The Negro, evidently, is receiving the reward he merits

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  War, Men, Agency

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• Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Character, Connections, Jurisprudence

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.547, Library of Alexandria

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

  John Steinbeck

  Games, Singing, Despair

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Our Heavenly Father is the Father of our spirits, and Jesus Christ is the Creator of this world. They know and understand us and the world around us better than anyone else. Looking to a higher source for knowledge and power can help us far more than relying on the wisdom of the world. We need to have the Spirit and look to the prophets and our priesthood leaders. We also need to look to the scriptures, which contain God's words to holy men.

  Allan F. Packer

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

  George Carey

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, Past, Years

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• So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.

  Warren Jeffs

  Race, Today Is The Day, Blood

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• Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane in him Cannot hold the priesthood ... I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ. I know it is true & they know it. The Negro cannot hold one particle of Government ... if any man mingles his seed with the seed of Cane the only way he Could get rid of it or have salvation would be to Come forward & have his head Cut off & spill his Blood upon the ground. It would also take the life of his Children.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Children, Cutting

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