Priesthood Quotes

• Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Art Is, Pastime

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• Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Sacrifice, People

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• Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

  David A. Bednar

  Self, People, Bless

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• Miracles are everywhere to be found when priesthood callings are magnified. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Selfish, Opportunity, Miracle

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• Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Intellectual, Culture

  1990 In The Independent, 24 Jan.

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• Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

  Pedro Poveda Castroverde

  God, Christian, Work

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• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Maturity, Expression, Servant Of God

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• The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Blessing, Greater

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• Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

  David A. Bednar

  Pathways, Power Of God, Ordinances

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• The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

  James Madison

  Numbers, People, Religion

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.432

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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Change, Fall

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

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• Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Mean, Men

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• Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Demand, Pure

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• No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood

  Brigham Young

  Blood, Particles, Persons

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• We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

  Roger Mahony

  Religious, Children, Father

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• When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Earth, Four

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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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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• In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Order, Two, People

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.7

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• Our foundation is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The authority of the holy priesthood is here, restored under the hands of those who received it directly from our Lord. The curtains have been parted, and the God of heaven and His Beloved Son have spoken to the boy prophet Joseph in opening this last and final dispensation. Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Son, Boys

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• Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Miracle, Used, Found

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• The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes of society. This great power for good has been entrusted to us, and we must not weaken it by failing in our responsibilities.

  James E. Faust

  Failure, Responsibility, People

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

  Pope Francis

  Today, Praying, Priests

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• Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Principles, Might, Sleeves

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• I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Men, Practice

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