The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.
People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.