Quotes About Deacons

#1. The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

Richard Cushing

#2. If deacons are required to be full of the Spirit, should those who preach and teach the Word of God be any less? Spiritual goals can be achieved only by spiritual people who use spiritual methods.

J. Oswald Sanders

#3. Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

Sean O'Casey

#4. You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#5. He had learned how to assemble Jewish texts, Greek philosophy, and Middle-Western evangelistic anecdotes into a sermon. And he had learned that poverty was blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

Anonymous

#7. What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

Muriel Beadle

#8. If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments ... ?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#9. Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#10. Deacons are God's gift to bishops, not the other way around. They are there to remind him/her of their foundational calling. They become the instrument through which God saves a bishop's soul.12

Susanne Watson Epting

#11. it seems best to view deacons as servants who do whatever is necessary to allow the elders to accomplish their God-given calling of shepherding and teaching the church.

Matt Schmucker

#12. The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What

Umberto Eco

#13. The best is perhaps what we understand the least.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I like you so much,
I would commit reason for you.
But it's not possible,
I'm a woman.

Sienna McQuillen

#15. I always had a fetish for murder and death.

David Berkowitz

#16. When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men,

Thomas S. Monson

#17. The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#18. Brave Girl Boots A Forty-Day Journey to Brave TAMI WALKER

Tami Walker

#19. Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Thomas Perry

#20. I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Abraham Lincoln

#21. I've got a job to do.

Gordon Brown

#22. The emotional trauma of a security breach can sometimes stay with a person for the rest of their lives. This is why the best prevention efforts are important for your family.

Franklin Gillette

#23. People will come up with a hundred thousand reasons why other people do not count as human, but that does not mean anyone has to listen.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#24. In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.

Murray Rothbard