Ordained Deacon Quotes

#1. You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

Steve Miller

#2. For I can do everything through Christ,[*] who gives me strength.

Anonymous

#3. When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

Henry David Thoreau

#4. If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?

Neil Leckman

#5. True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

Horace Mann

#6. So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

Thomas Keneally

#7. Well, you know what they say. If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.

Samantha Steele

#8. For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

George Harrison

#9. If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

Lu Xun

#10. I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.

John Shelby Spong