Everything that is best, most exalted, most precious, holy, and wise, is found in the Church. In the Church is the ideal of mankind; the Church is heaven upon earth. (John of Kronstadt)

Everything that is best, most exalted, most precious, holy, and wise, is found in the Church. In the Church is the ideal of mankind; the Church is heaven upon earth.

John of Kronstadt

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