Priestly Quotes

34 quotes by 29 authors

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable… — Pope Benedict XVI
How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls… — Basilea Schlink
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility… — Ammon Hennacy
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,… — Noam Chomsky
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up… — Natalie Zemon Davis
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard… — Romain Rolland
The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.Â Sanctity is intimacy with God;… — Pope John Paul I
Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics]… — Aristotle
A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is… — Herman Bavinck
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it,… — Warren Jeffs
I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I… — Marianne Williamson
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is… — Julius Wellhausen
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid. — Otto von Bismarck
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the… — Swami Vivekananda
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic… — Julius Wellhausen
The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the… — Walter Lippmann
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into… — Kenny Smith
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the… — Israel Shamir

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