Deacons Quotes:

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

- Jack Youngblood

source: "Deacon Jones, football's original sackmaster, was the most feared of the Fearsome Foursome". www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2013.

topic: Football, Careers, Deacons

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

- Richard Cushing

topic: Fun, Church, Bishops, Deacons

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

- Thomas Keneally

topic: Lasts, Becoming, Steps, Ordination, Deacons

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

- Jim Elliot

topic: Men, Laziness, Firsts, Deacons

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

- Sean O'Casey

topic: Christian, Knights, Order, Deacons

Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.

- Ignatius of Antioch

topic: Spiritual, Father, Teaching, Man Of God, Deacons

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Inspirational, Light, Darkness, Friars, Light And Dark

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: God, Faith, Inspiration, Friars, Franciscans

See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.

- Ignatius of Antioch

topic: Jesus, Father, Men, Catholic Church, Deacons

The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Military, Years, Southern, Southern Baptist, Chaplains

We're not robbing him," Skulduggery said." But I'm afraid I have some bad news." "Is it Deacon?" Francine asked, her eyes wide. "It is." "Is he sick?" "It's a little worse than that." She gasped. "He's dying?" "He was briefly dying," said Skulduggery. "Now he's dead.

- Derek Landy

topic: Eye, Sick, Dying, Deacons

Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

- Dylan Thomas

source: Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

topic: Horse, Sunday, Past, Wales, Sunday Afternoons

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

- Carolyn Custis James

source: Carolyn Custis James (2011). “The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules”, p.69, Harper Collins

topic: Responsibility, Office, Church, Deacons

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

- Martin Buber

topic: Christian, Religious, Mean, Concealment, Deacons

I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.

- April Parker Jones

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Encouragement, Moving, College, Sophomore Year, Deacons

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

- Ignatius of Antioch

topic: Jesus, Catholic, Church, Catholic Church, Deacons

My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.

- Mike Tyson

topic: Running, Father, Circles, Deacons

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.16, tredition

topic: Women, Office, Religion, Deacons

I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Money, Church, Dollars, Deacons

My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

- Sherri Shepherd

topic: Mother, Dad, Church, Mother Passed Away, Baptized

You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.

- Deacon Jones

topic: Football, Book, Inner Peace, Deacons

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

- M. Scott Peck

topic: Christian, People, Evil, Deacons

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

- Robert Charles Wilson

topic: New York, Knives, Cities, Moral Corruption, Deacons

What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

- Muriel Beadle

topic: College, Students, Forget, Deacons

You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.

- John Henrik Clarke

source: Source: www.ourtimepress.com

topic: Doors, Support, Church, Deacons

These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

- Stephen King

topic: Country, Hate, Heart, Nicholson, Dissection