Priestly Quotes

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal

Faith, Business, Writing

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 with the European Constitution.
Joseph Ratzinger

Women, Fact, Church

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 with the European Constitution.
Pope Benedict XVI

Women, Fact, Church

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
Paul Harris

Real, Subject, Imaginary

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 it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman

Power, Alone, Creative

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
Julius Wellhausen

Thinking, Result, Aim

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
Arthur Middleton

Cannot, Forever, Carry

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 period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
Julius Wellhausen

Success, Hard, Whatever

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 the normal and final authority.
Julius Wellhausen

Rest, Normal, Matters

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, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
Warren Jeffs

God, Wife, Purpose

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