Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

The blessings of the priesthood transcend our ability to comprehend.

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

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

Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.

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

In the beginning, God placed a woman in a companion role with the priesthood.

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift.

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

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.

The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.

Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation.

Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power - we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Most significantly, the fullness of the priesthood contained in the highest ordinances of the house of the Lord can be received only by a man and woman together.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Goldman in the '80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

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