Women Bishops Quotes & Sayings

The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked. — David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes

I don't drink. I don't do drugs. — Casper Van Dien

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people. — Gloria Steinem

Singlehood is a problem to be solved. Even the bishops in singles wards are impatient with us, frustrated with the amount of time they spend away from their families, dealing with violations of the law of chastity. There's an easy solution, we're often reminded. "Just choose one," said one bishop to a male friend of mine, and indicated, like a game show host, the array of available women before him. — Nicole Hardy

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers. — Tom Lehrer

Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words ... — Pope Benedict XIV

We held each other in silence for minutes. Hours. Two souls, twining in the dark. — Sarah J. Maas

Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks. — Robert Kiyosaki

If the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it. — Arthur W. Pink

Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today. — Debora Hooper

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own. — Robert Englund

One hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women. — Mary Daly

I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow. — Dane Cook

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life. — Tracy Morgan