Quotes About Elder

Respect must be given voluntarily, no matter if you are an elder or a leader, you cannot take it by force.

In Of Wolves and Men, Barry Lopez recounts the story of an ethnographer posing a riddle to an elder among the Nunamiut, a tribe in northern Alaska. At the end of his life, the researcher asked, who knows more about life in Alaska—how to escape a blizzard, how to find caribou, how to survive on such a harsh landscape—a wolf or a man? "The same," the elder replied. "They know the same.

Pyotr said that all children were God's children, even those whose minds had been overwritten by alien memes. "What about the Jackaroo and the !Cha?" Tony said. "Those also." "And the Elder Cultures?" "Of course. The universe and everything in it is Her Kingdom.

Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I alone, but also all who know the truth—

The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth:

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.”