#church

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#aside #cannot #church #earth #evil

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#divine #earth #everywhere #heavens #hence

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#church #every #every sunday #fine #friends

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#cities #fills #heaven #itself #kingdoms

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today. ↗

— Randall Terry

#arena #church #does #duty #every

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Randall Terry

#any #churches #commandments #congregation #country

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#church #help #i #mind #old

Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has created specifically to make disciples and accomplish His mission (of influencing a generation to have a stronger, deeper, and more authentic relationship with God), there is the church...the family...and nothing else. ↗

— Reggie Joiner

#family #family

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#choirs #churches #converted #creating #deliberately

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#along #attitude #based #church #clear