Quotes About Holy Orders

#1. According to Father O'Dowd's description, the seminary catered to both ends of the religious life, training the next crop of young men taking holy orders and providing a retirement home for those closer to discovering if they'd backed the right horse.

David J. Oldman

#2. A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

Samuel Wilberforce

#3. In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates.

Jim Hunt

#4. Don't long for the unripe grape.

Horace

#5. In those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. The Church is the Body of Christ begotten, unified, and indwelt by the Spirit, but forgetting the Spirit, men wrangle over limbs, functions, and orders. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

Samuel Chadwick

#7. Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

Saadi

#8. Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself - so long as other people leave him alone.]

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

John Gimlette

#10. Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#11. An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.

Gilad Atzmon

#12. It is the story that matters not just the ending.

Paul Lockhart

#13. From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.

Buzz Aldrin

#14. We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

Georges Bernanos