Priesthood Quotes

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

— Thomas S. Monson

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

— Russell M. Nelson

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

— Brigham Young

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

— J. G. Ballard

The blessings of the priesthood transcend our ability to comprehend.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“After all, eighteen years of my life had been geared toward priesthood.”

— Charles Benedict

The power of the living God is here on the earth. The Priesthood is here.

— Heber J. Grant

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

— Myrtle Fillmore

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

— Henry David Thoreau

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

— M. Russell Ballard

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having…

— Raimon Panikkar

“You'll be asked to be the ass He rides into Jerusalem, but it's a heavy load, and it'll break your back, because…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

— Arthur Middleton

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

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

— John Lothrop Motley

“I realized I needed to think about how to leave priesthood—if it was even possible.”

— Charles Benedict

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the…

— Robert Klein

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,…

— Voltaire

Most significantly, the fullness of the priesthood contained in the highest ordinances of the house of the Lord can be received only…

— Sheri L. Dew

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father…

— Roger Mahony

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

In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil…

— Terry Pratchett

“When I find myself drawn away from my priesthood duties by other interests and when my body begs for rest, I give…

— Henry B. Eyring

Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made…

— Bonnie L. Oscarson

“We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of, than the mass of mankind, which corrupted as it is, those who…

— Jonathan Swift

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…

— John Steinbeck

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit…

— H. G. Wells

You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly…

— Brigham Young

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like…

— Tim O'Reilly

The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The other day a little girl in the fifth grade put me in an awkward spot by stating: 'Is it fair that…

— Pope John Paul I

“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But…

— Jean Bernard

“I like to think I had an out-of-body experience, but really I imagined myself being an outsider who observed the dinner conversation…

— Charles Benedict

“As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we…

— D. Todd Christofferson

“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized…

— John Adams

“I have beheld the power of God manifest in my home and in my ministry. I have seen evil rebuked and the…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace…

— Ben Witherington III

“One of the things that happened when the church moved from meetings in homes to having purpose-built buildings beginning before, but accelerated…

— Ben Witherington III