#priesthood

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#culture #done #foreign #glories #human

And I was very interested in the priesthood. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#interested #priesthood #very

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#church #conditioned #convenient #form #himself

He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me? ↗

— David Holdsworth

#jesus-the-christ #joyfulness #justice #kindness #love-story

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#consider #evil #generally #inventors #people

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#buried #ceremonies #civil #down #forms

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#as far as #blood #concerned #continued #day

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

#ago #down #end #four #go

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#pastime #priesthood

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

— Arthur Middleton

#carry #cease #does #forever #ministry