Priesthood Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old priesthood quotes, priesthood sayings, and priesthood proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

To realize what a priest is, we must first see God’s eternal plan… Man was destined to receive God, to be filled, saturated and permeated with God, and to have God flow out of him that he might be the living expression of God. This is a brief definition of a priest. unknown
The work, ministry, and commission of the priesthood are in Christ. Christ is the very ministry of the priesthood. unknown
Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God. Hebrews 10:11-12
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. Arthur Middleton
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself. Arthur Middleton
Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority. David A. Bednar
Therefore, thus said the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers – for ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God. Doctrine and Covenants 86:8-9
The order of this Priesthood was confirmed to be handed down from father to son, and rightly belongs to the literal descendants of the chosen seed, to whom the promise were made. Doctrine and Covenants 107:40
The purpose of our being set apart as priests is that we are the means of announcing the gospel to all those in darkness. Just as God chose Israel in the Old Testament and set her apart from the nation so that her belonging to God would stand as witness to the other nations, so God has called the church. The believers are 'priests' in the sense that as we are faithfully being the church, the world will see and hear. John 13:35; Matthew 28:18-20