Quotes of: Priestly Keyword

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

Gift and Mystery: On the fifteth anniversary of my priestly ordination

The very purpose of designing the Temple of Jerusalem as a series of ever more restrictive ingressions was to maintain the priestly monopoly over who can and cannot come into the presence of God and to what degree. The sick, the lame, the leper, the ...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Even a King wishes to be loved for Himself, not for the gifts He bestows." He smiled at me. "If you do not enjoy being with Me now, why do you believe you will enjoy My company for eternity?" He smiled at me. "The pursuer wants to be pursued also." -...

The Priestly Bride

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

A Man as Priest in His Home

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

Paul Harris

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Arthur Middleton

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

Gore Vidal

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

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

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

Julius Wellhausen

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

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

I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud so lightly?

Day of War

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

The Pursuit of God

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

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost i...

Rick Perlstein

If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged role.

A Short History of Myth

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.

Mi Pais Inventado: Un Paseo Nostalgico por Chile

As long as art is understood and valued as an “absolute” activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses. So far as the best art defines itself by essentially “priestly” aims, it presupposes and confirms the existence o...

Susan Sontag

The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative personalities” springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human au...

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community