A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.
I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
There is no one true church.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.