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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

When I was growing up, we dressed up for church.

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.

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.

When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

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

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.