Appearance Quote by Peter Roebuck

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's…

— Greg Boyle

“That line of reasoning, however, is patently bogus. Discussion of women’s ordination among Adventists predated the “women’s lib” movement by 70 or more years:…

— William G. Johnsson

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy…

— Harper Lee

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

— Elizabeth Aston

The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for…

— David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

— Madame de Stael

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

— G. Campbell Morgan

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

— Rodney Stark

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

— James E. Faust

I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!

— Tori Spelling

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton