The church is a fellowship of sinners who are saved by grace.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
The church is not a place for spectators. It is a place for participants.
The church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.
The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings.
The church is a mosaic of God’s grace.
The church is not a building to be consecrated; it is consecrated by the people who worship there.
The church is the great lost and found department.
The church is not a building; the church is not a steeple; the church is not a resting place; the church is a people.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
The church is a whore, but she's my mother.
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
The church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.
The true church is an assemblage of certain persons, united by the power of love.