A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Church
See the Gospel Church secure, And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure; Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine; Tell, to after-ages tell, Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail.
看见福音教会安然无恙，并建立在磐石上!她所有的承诺都是肯定的;她的墙垣谁能震动呢?数数她每一个珍贵的神龛;讲给后世听，讲给后世听，讲给后世听，讲给后世听。
I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.
我对灵性有更广泛、更自由的看法。我觉得人们需要自己去追求。你知道，让它成为他们的——与他们的灵魂，或他们的上帝，或与他们的教会的私人关系。
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
教会，在使徒时代，不是由孤立的，独立的会众组成，而是一个整体，其中单独的教会是组成成员，每一个都服从于所有其他的，或服从于一个延伸到所有的权威。
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
复兴有两件事要做。首先，它使教会从倒退中恢复过来;其次，它使男女皈依;它总是包括教会对罪的定罪。今天，魔鬼似乎给教堂施了一个多么大的魔咒啊!
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
在我爷爷建他自己的教堂之前，我们去了邻近的城镇，那是一个白人社区。你知道，在北部，大部分是欧洲中部的人和印第安人，奇皮瓦印第安人。我们被欢迎去那个教堂，但是一旦我们进去，他们不知道该拿我们怎么办。
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
我之所以这样做，是因为我想要教会的纪律、火和权柄。我毫无希望地不配拥有它，但我希望变得有价值。
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
与此同时，教会越来越多地提供了圣灵的教义，通过实际地束缚他对等级制度和圣礼的影响。
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
若要救一个祭司的命，或是牺牲全会众的命，教会也必救那祭司的命。当然，这是倒退的。
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
显然，接受教会为绝对正确的向导的人会相信教会所教导的一切。
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
在我看来，问题在于人们把古老的乡村教堂当作他们的榜样，却没有发现它们和城镇中的教堂之间应该有最明显的区别。
Bells call to church but do not enter.
钟声召唤教堂，但不进入。