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No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood -- Brigham Young
The stage is yours, my dear Aaronic Priesthood boys. Are you ready and willing to play your part? The Lord needs every able young man to prepare and recommit, starting tonight, to be worthy of a call from the prophet of God to serve a mission. -- Ronald A. Rasband
Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness. -- David A. Bednar
The power of the living God is here on the earth. The Priesthood is here. -- Heber J. Grant
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? -- Paul Cezanne
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. -- Arthur Middleton
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
Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men. -- Dallin H. Oaks
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
Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority. -- David A. Bednar
A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive. -- David O. McKay
Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood, lessens the power of Satan on the earth, and increases the power of God and Godliness. -- George Q. Cannon
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'. -- Terry Pratchett
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
We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right. -- Roger Mahony
Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy. -- James E. Faust
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. -- Jean Cocteau
Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests. -- Pope Francis
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. -- John Lothrop Motley
Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted. -- Thomas S. Monson
Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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
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
As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. -- Warren Buffett
When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity. -- Brigham Young
As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today. -- James E. Faust
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect. -- Noam Chomsky
The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children. -- Boyd K. Packer
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness. -- Sheri L. Dew
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people. -- David A. Bednar
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. -- Tom Stoppard
We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority. -- James E. Faust
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited. -- James E. Faust
If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord. -- Ezra Taft Benson
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position. -- Ezra Taft Benson
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
Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us. -- Henry B. Eyring
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
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God. -- Francesco Guicciardini
Life eternal is to live in unity, in families, with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Eternal life is only possible through the keys of the priesthood of God, which were restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. Holding that eternal goal before the youth you lead is as great a gift as you could give them. -- Henry B. Eyring
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose. -- Henry B. Eyring
A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety. -- Henry B. Eyring
Missionary service is a priesthood duty. -- Thomas S. Monson
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. -- John Keats
Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife -- M. Russell Ballard
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War... -- J. G. Ballard
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans. -- Joseph Campbell
The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable. -- Francis Atterbury
All faithful members of the Lord's Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances. -- Julie B. Beck
The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god." -- G.K. Chesterton
Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood. -- Noam Chomsky
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. -- Ann Coulter
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood. -- Henry David Thoreau
I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician. -- Jonathan Cain
One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority. -- M. Russell Ballard
Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation. -- Harold B. Lee
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia. -- Nancy Pearcey
The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift. -- Neil L. Andersen
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity, -- Justinian I
Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties. -- Dallin H. Oaks
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. -- John Shelby Spong
It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess. -- M. Russell Ballard
Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form. -- Robert Barron
Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now. -- Anandi Gopal Joshi
(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name of the priesthood -- Andrew Greeley
The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood. -- Henry B. Eyring
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation. -- Timothy Radcliffe
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need. -- Henry B. Eyring
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood. -- Paul Halmos
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
Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power - we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again. -- Sheri L. Dew
This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith?a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self. -- Thomas S. Monson
I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood. -- James McAvoy
ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. -- Liu Shaoqi
I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing. -- F. Sionil Jose
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world. -- Henry B. Eyring
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us. -- Robert Klein
Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service. -- Henry B. Eyring
We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority. -- David A. Bednar
I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood. -- Jonathan Cain
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. -- John Steinbeck
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people. -- Voltaire
The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing. -- Eugene Kennedy
When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man -- Dallin H. Oaks
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
Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends. -- Rubellite Kawena Johnson
One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.' -- David A. Bednar
The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood"¦We should be careful of them. -- J. Reuben Clark

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