"Ministrant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Letter, another person, Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, a man who has toiled and contended at my very side for the Lord and against the Enemy, while he is also your missionary and ministrant[6] for my need. Yes, I ...
— Philippian Studies - Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians • Handley C. G. Moule
... Agni, the Purohita, the divine ministrant of the sacrifice, the Hotri priest, the greatest bestower of treasures. Agni, worthy to be magnified by the ancient Rishis and by the present ones—may he conduct the gods hither. May one obtain through ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various
... making the largest demand for freedom of investigation—while I consider science to be alike powerful as an instrument of intellectual culture and as a ministrant to the material wants of men; if you ask me whether it has solved, or is likely in our day to solve, the problem of this universe, I must shake my head in doubt. You remember the first Napoleon's question, when the savants who accompanied him to Egypt discussed in his presence the origin of ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... over all the ages stretched, O dumb tradition from what far darkness fetched: Each little architect with its one design Perpetual, fixed and right in stuff and line, Each little ministrant who knows one thing, One learned rite to celebrate the spring. Whatever alters else on sea or shore, These are unchanging: ...
— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various
... it too much to let it alone; and day by day he would hang upon the rim with trembling fingers, and search the black, smooth depths, with all Ophelia's pangs. And to this moment, no rushing river is half so ministrant to dread as is a still, dull hogshead, ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown
... from the altar of your home no Masses ascend, no fragrance of flowers nor praise. Venice is more faithful in that which she commands, and we, carina, may not longer disregard her will without suspicion of disloyalty. Since Fra Francesco is no longer here, I will apply for some new ministrant. Hast thou a wish in this choice of a priest for the ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull |
