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Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.