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To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. -- Julius Wellhausen
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority. -- Julius Wellhausen
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. -- Jeremy Bentham
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own. -- Julius Wellhausen
Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All of creation-human and nonhuman alike-exists ultimately for God and to the praise of God. -- Rodney Clapp
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes. -- Pope Paul VI
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. -- Gore Vidal
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. -- Arthur Middleton
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. -- Paul Harris
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 Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God. -- Warren Jeffs
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. -- Charles Eastman
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that? -- Rick Perlstein
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid. -- Otto von Bismarck
In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life. -- Leon Trotsky
Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. -- David Hume
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation. -- Victoria Woodhull
This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone. -- Charles Chilton Moore
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world. -- Karen Armstrong
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. -- Noam Chomsky
Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy. -- Isabel Allende
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture. -- Kenny Smith

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