Ordination Quotes - Page 2

• The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Special, Foundation

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.192

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• Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wise, Men, Air

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• To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

  Jalal Talabani

  Change, Moving, Army

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• Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr. declared, motherhood is ‘as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself.’

  Sheri L. Dew

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lying, Organization, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1208, Manonmani Publishers

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• Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even if there were one ideal pattern for society, it could be arrived at in an a priori fashion. And even supposing that some great genius did come along with a blueprint, who could have the confidence that it could work

  Robert Nozick

  Fashion, Supposing That, People

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• Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination.

  Raymonde de Laroche

  Women, Flying, Doe

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• If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?

  Carl E. Olson

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

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