Ordinance Quotes
52 quotes by 44 authors
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Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
— John Bunyan
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The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver…
— Potter Stewart
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,…
— William James
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Now, we have the Holy Ghost. Each one of us who is a member of the Church has had hands laid upon his head and…
— Marion G. Romney
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Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
— Plato
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I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Â No ordinance is of more importance and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson,…
— Russell M. Nelson
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If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom.…
— Wilford Woodruff
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To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a…
— John Knox
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All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and…
— A. Theodore Tuttle
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Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to…
— Norman Foster
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
— Alfred Marshall
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have
— Orson Pratt
Who Wrote These Ordinance Quotes
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