Ordination Quotes

• Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Attitude, Character

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• On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

  Pope Francis

  Doors, Church, John Paul Ii

  "Pope's women in the Church remarks urge a deeper theology" by Adelaide Mena, www.catholicnewsagency.com.

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• Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.

  David A. Bednar

  Hands, Soul, Important

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• Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

  David A. Bednar

  Men, Ordinary, Authority

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• In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Purpose, Want, Scripture

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• At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

  Peter Jurasik

  Graduation, Numbers, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

  Thomas Keneally

  Lasts, Becoming, Steps

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• Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

  Pope Francis

  Today, Praying, Priesthood

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• The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Facts, Constitution

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on the Banishment of God From Public Life". zenit.org. April 11, 2005.

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• When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it (as on the day of my ordination to the priesthood), and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does calm return, but my body seems to be annihilated; the only true life begins, the life of that which is intangible.

  Leonid Feodorov

  Reality, Giving, Joy

  Exarch Leonid Feodorov, Bridgebuilder Between Rome and Moscow" by Paul Mailleux, (p. 166), 1964.

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• Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.

  Rufus Jones

  Heart, Light, Hands

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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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• My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

  Al Sharpton

  Age, Church, Baptists

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• Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Wisdom, Fate, Literature

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• The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Serenity, Monk

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• When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Mean, Names, People

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• Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

  Horace Walpole

  Thinking, Hands, Wings

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• The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Knowing Jesus, Going To Church, Truth Will Prevail

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”

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• Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspiration, Bishops, Obligation

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• There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Work Out, Long

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• The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.

  Andrew Greeley

  Creativity, Creative, Elements

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• OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Attention, Body

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• Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.

  Laura Riding

  Names, Ideas, Two

  "Poetry and Politics". "The Common Asphodel". Book by Robert Graves, 1949.

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• To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Progress, Liberty, Development

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• I did it through our ministries. We had ordination and basically understanding there ought - to be ordained that God has set apart, for the purposes of ministry. This is an important thing because of that defining moment, when I held that word up, I said I want to spend the rest of my life helping people.

  Paula White

  People, Understanding, Important

  Source: culteducation.com

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