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Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. -- Mike Huckabee
I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling! -- Tori Spelling
Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening. -- Thomas Ken
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil. -- Richard Land
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? -- Jack Welch
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. -- Tony Campolo
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. -- Edmund Burke
Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love. -- Ellen G. White
No marketing plan is ever going to bring in one soul that was not ordained by the Lord to be saved in the first place. -- Monica Johnson
The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense. -- Greg Boyle
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. -- Marcus Aurelius
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
The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. -- John Marshall Harlan
The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God. -- Jonathan Mayhew
Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us. -- William Kunstler
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things. -- Gary Numan
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. -- Charles Hodge
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. -- John Adams
The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked. -- David Hope
Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. -- Saint Basil
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. -- King Hussein I
God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine. -- John Piper
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
Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly. -- John Wycliffe
Calamity was ordained for man. -- Bill Vaughan
The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk. -- Mark Batterson
What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved -- Seneca the Younger
Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line. -- Barack Obama
God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation. -- Pope Leo I
God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. -- Riane Eisler
Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. -- Jerry Bridges
He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather! -- William Law
Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical -- Mark Batterson
Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need. -- Wesley L Duewel
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous. -- James Dobson
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975. -- Sally Kirkland
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. -- Euripides
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and is ordained of God. -- Quentin L. Cook
Your present challenges or limitations cannot stop you from becoming what God has ordained you to be. -- Tonto Dikeh
We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained. -- Roland Burris
I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith -- Orson Pratt
Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do. -- Mark Batterson
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. -- Bram Stoker
In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. -- Charles Udall
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you. -- Petronius
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice. -- Aeschylus
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind. -- St. Catherine of Siena
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. -- Henry Vaughan
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained. -- Suzanne La Follette
Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope. -- Alistair Begg
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly. -- Flora Thompson
In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood. -- Tony Campolo
Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else -- Mark Batterson
You may have your diploma from a seminary, ordained by a Bishop, or commissioned by a denomination but ONLY God can "mark" a man." -- John Paul Warren
Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet. -- Peter Roebuck
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary. -- Elisabeth Elliot
There are many different ways that people get licensed or ordained through different ministries, denominations, etc. So - but for myself, there was no formal seminary. -- Paula White
A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands. -- Ezra Taft Benson
My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job. -- Barbara Holland
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this. -- Woodrow Wilson
I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches. -- Diablo Cody
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about. -- Tenzin Palmo
Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance. -- Richard Hooker
The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." Inaugural address 1789 -- George Washington
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet. -- Orson Pratt
The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth. -- Pope Leo XIII
...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us... -- Alexandre Dumas
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet -- Orson Pratt
Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness. -- William Tyndale
There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen.Hitsuzen...A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible. -- CLAMP
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching. -- Joanne Harris
God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives. -- John Piper
Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession. -- Alphonsus Liguori
God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him. -- J. Oswald Sanders
I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God. -- Mahershala Ali
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church? -- Frances E. Willard
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? -- David Lloyd George
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. -- J. G. Holland
O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained. -- Richard Rolle
The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained. -- Jim Cymbala
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There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words -- John Wycliffe
The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses. -- Bill Maher
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence. -- Shirley Hazzard
Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare. -- Pope Paul VI
I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status. -- Jerry Falwell
Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit. -- Livy
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill. -- William Cowper
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. -- Homer
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them. -- Laurence Sterne
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God's authority from the beginning: â??Increase and multiply. -- Pope Leo XIII

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