Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
The gift of faith is a priceless spiritual endowment... Our faith is centered in God our Father, and Jesus Christ, our Savior… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars.… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image