Quotes About Ordination

#1. Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

Boyd K. Packer

#2. The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

Marcel Duchamp

#3. Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#4. In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.

Anne Graham Lotz

#5. Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

Horace Walpole

#6. 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

#7. The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

#9. Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

Douglas Coupland

#10. 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.

George Carey

#11. To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

Jalal Talabani

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

Pope Francis

#13. Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

David A. Bednar

#14. Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#15. My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Al Sharpton

#16. M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#17. Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Erich Fromm

#18. To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

Hermann Hesse

#19. On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

Pope Francis

#20. 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

#21. To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

Pandurang Shastri Athavale

#23. Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.

Sheri L. Dew

#24. The ordained minister, the one set aside and consecrated, is to illuminate the vocation of
the Church and the vocations of the many people who are the Church. That means that ordination is not exclusionary but exemplary."28

L. Gregory Jones

#25. At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

Peter Jurasik

#26. Eye and foot acquire in rough walking a co-ordination that makes one distinctly aware of where the next step is to fall, even while watching sky and land.

Nan Shepherd

#27. Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination.

Raymonde De Laroche

#28. The ordination of
women is not a matter of adaptation to changed social conditions. It has to do with new fife from the beginnings of the Christian church: life out of the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

Jurgen Moltmann

#29. If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?

Carl E. Olson

#30. It is important to note that when Mary Magdalene and other women were chosen by Jesus to bring the important news to the men, the men did not believe the women. Today 2,000 years later men still don't believe women when they say "We are also chosen by Jesus to be leaders in the church.

Roy Bourgeois