The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
The will of the world is never the will of God.
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.