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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
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
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
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
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
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
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. -- David A. Bednar
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
Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental co-ordination. -- Raymonde de Laroche
Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests. -- Pope Francis
To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion. -- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills. -- Swami Vivekananda
Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration. -- Boyd K. Packer
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
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
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
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
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
There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient. -- Henry Miller
Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even if there were one ideal pattern for society, it could be arrived at in an a priori fashion. And even supposing that some great genius did come along with a blueprint, who could have the confidence that it could work -- Robert Nozick
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
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
Governments clash with each other over who should control the co-ordination of the Internet's infrastructure and critical resources. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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

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