Donna Brazile

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.

American Politician

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.

American Leader

Ezra Taft Benson

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.

James McGreevey

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

James E. Faust

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.

American Clergyman

F. Sionil Jose

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.

Filipino Writer

James Madison

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.

American President

David A. Bednar

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

Russell M. Nelson

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Arthur Middleton

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

Becoming a priest often implies dedicating one's life to religious service.

Life Commitment

Entry into the priesthood is considered sacred and involves specific religious rites.

Sacred Process

In many religions, only men can enter the priesthood, though this is changing.

Male Dominated

Each religion has its own distinct priesthood with unique roles and responsibilities.

Religion Specific

Priests often play a significant role in their communities, offering support and guidance.

Community Role

Members of the priesthood are generally respected and are expected to act as moral exemplars.

Respected Position

In Mormonism, priesthood is more accessible to males compared to other denominations.

Broader Access

Mormonism allows non-clergy members to receive the priesthood and perform some rituals.

Lay Priesthood

Mormon priesthoods are divided into two orders, each with different authority and duties.

Two Orders

 not spell the end to the formal church or to the priesthood I believe that our artistic institutions will continue to have importance they currently are the best opportunities for artists to have lives of economic dignity not opulence of dignity and they are the places where artists who deserve and want to work at

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 everything's fine in in our church in the lds church she was ordained to the priesthood and was the first assistant to the bishop and so she was you know very involved and so i came home one day because she hadn't shown up at church and she was still in bed and i came in and i said hey what's the deal

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 These, of course, are the descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization. If those of you who are here remember that I mentioned that they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood, but the training for the priesthood is extraordinary. Taken from their families, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness

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 To this day, they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary. The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18

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 which grows the world over. In fact, the ancient Europeans were so captivated by the plant's unusual growth habits that they included it in their legends and myths. In ancient Rome, Pliny the Elder described how the Druid priesthood in ancient England

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 Ultimately, we now live in a world defined not by consumption, but by participation. But I want to be clear, just as the religious Reformation did not spell the end to the formal Church or to the priesthood;

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 and you do believe it, you'd better keep it to yourself, because it will get in your way." So I get the impression that some parts of the scientific establishment are morphing into a kind of priesthood.

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 mostly agricultural communities the emergence of priesthood emergence of rulers of chiefs who said you know you not only need to behave yourself in this particular way because this is the way

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 deity but it would not last as soon as he died the old priesthood struck back this piece has been hacked away as you can tell you can see how the name of the

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 So somehow, we went from this to this. Systems thinkers who were reinventing the world, to a priesthood of folks in black turtlenecks and designer glasses