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

Greater Blessing Priesthood

Author:Neil L. Andersen

“Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.”

Pathways Godliness Priesthood Power Of God Ordinances

Author:David A. Bednar

“Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.”

Earth Christ Source Authority Privileged Priesthood Authority And Power

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.”

Men Children Play Home Church Roles Essentials Be A Man Priesthood

Author:D. Todd Christofferson

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

Today Praying Please Priests Priesthood Ordination Pray For Me

Author:Pope Francis

“The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.”

Should Firsts Children Ends Home Law Church Principles Wife Calling Activity Husband Ultimate Protected Everlasting Covenant Husband And Wife Priesthood

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple.”

Made Individual Enjoy Circumstances Blessing Temples Covenant Baptism Priesthood

Author:Bonnie L. Oscarson

“Mothers, your relationship with your daughter is of paramount importance, and so is your example. How you love and honor her father, his priesthood, and his divine role will be reflected and perhaps amplified in your daughter’s attitudes and behavior.”

Mother Father Attitude Roles Example Divine Honor Behavior Daughter Importance Our Relationship Priesthood Our Daughter Paramount Your Daughter Love And Honor

Author:Elaine S. Dalton

“Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.”

People Should Firsts Lord Plans Modern Divine Members Raises Priesthood Modern Times Raise Up

Book:Title of liberty

Source: Title of liberty

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

People Two Order Slave Nobility Priesthood

Book:The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes

Source: The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes

“[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.”

Men Growth Rooms Virtue Society He Man Computer Tests Universal Profit Business Success Communion Committees Benches Priesthood

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.”

Should Wells Earth Devil Should Have Representation Priesthood

Author:Warren Jeffs

“I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.”

Knows Men Feels Wells Together Ambition Vices Deeper Profession Dedicated Disgusting Avarice Priesthood Abhorrent

Book:Ricordi

Source: Ricordi

“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.”

Years Facts Problem Lasts Serious Profession Yesterday Last Year Harsh Priesthood

Author:Andrew Greeley

“I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.”

Thinking Way Long Country Moving My Own Levels Delighted Priesthood Ordination

Author:George Carey

“The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.”

People Way Years Two Past Religion Civilization Gay Thousand Ultimate Western Thousand Years Closets Gay People Priesthood Western Civilization

Author:John Shelby Spong

“My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.”

People Way Parent Virtue Teaching Raised Profession Medical Engaged Grandparent Lives Of Others Priesthood Medical Profession Complicity Parents And Grandparents

Author:Colin Firth

“So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.”

World Today Able Race Generations Blood Concerned Priesthood Today Is The Day

Author:Warren Jeffs