Quotes About Priestly

Inheritance is as integral to sonship as sacred space is to the priestly office.

Of my gardener I would say that he moves meditatively in the garden. He labours continually but without cruel haste; if he make changes, it is as the seasons make them. Like every good gardener, there is something priestly in his manner.

Are we prepared to purposely disregard ourselves and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual inner-searching we do in an effort to see if we are what we ought to be generates a self-centered, sickly type of Christianity, not the vigorous and simple life of a child of God.

The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.

These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.