When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.
Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.
Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.
I have a real spiritual family.
Everybody who belongs to Christ belongs to everybody who belongs to Christ
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.
Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!
Every convert is a son or daughter of God.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.
We were a spiritual family. My mother always told me, 'People hated Jesus Christ, so why should you worry about them?' Once she put it in that perspective, I was like, 'You're right, Ma.'
Everywhere......everyone you meet....is a potential brother or sister in CHRIST.
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our potential as His sons and daughters.
As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ’s family and be members of his body.
I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family.
The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.
Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death.
If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.
Your spiritual family is even more important than our physical family because it will last forever.
All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.
