#priesthood

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. ↗

— Hans Küng

#celibacy #christianity #church #priesthood #priests

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#attended #awe #became #endowed #greatest

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#belong #demands #heart #priesthood #pure

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#pastime #priesthood

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. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#develop #did #escape #fact #harsh

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. ↗

— James Madison

#church #devotion #increased #industry #manifestly

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#carry #cease #does #forever #ministry

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

— John Lothrop Motley

#gaul #nobility #orders #people #priesthood

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! ↗

— Giovannino Guareschi

#don-camillo #humour #italy #priesthood #catholicism