Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood…

“We keep waiting to be crowned, Waiting for the world to judge us worthy of offering our brightest, most empowered and beautiful stuff. But…

— Jacob Nordby

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

— Boyd K. Packer

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

— David A. Bednar

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

— Swami Vivekananda

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a…

— Thomas Keneally

“This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the natural resemblance between Christ and his priests must not stop…

— Paul King Jewett

I did it through our ministries. We had ordination and basically understanding there ought - to be ordained that God has set apart, for…

— Paula White

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…

— Anne Graham Lotz

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

— Benjamin Rush

Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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…

— Jalal Talabani

“is Christ who creates the office and defines its functions and prescribes the qualifications for it. And yet, according to the will of the…

— Guy Prentiss Waters

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy…

— Horace Walpole

“I once thought that would be the consummation of all joy—to be united by a bond of love—to be lost in His presence there…

— Thomas Merton

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…

— George Carey