Gains Quote by Tenzin Palmo

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo

Most of the early monks were not ordained. It was the pastoral work they undertook with the faithful that, over the centuries, gradually led…

— Basil Hume

I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this…

— Tenzin Palmo

Everyone should not be ordained, but for those who really feel that the only thing that matters in this world is the Dharma, then…

— Tenzin Palmo

“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination…

— Daniel G. Opperwall

In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether…

— Anne Graham Lotz

Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the…

— Martin Luther

Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority,…

— David A. Bednar

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral…

— Alister E. McGrath

The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and…

— Franklin Littell

“Know all ritual, ceremony, and conditions to be arbitrary (you have yourself to please): in the end, they are just a hindrance and a…

— Austin Osman Spare

There are many different ways that people get licensed or ordained through different ministries, denominations, etc. So - but for myself, there was no…

— Paula White