The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
The church is a fellowship of people who are going to heaven. We're just not there yet.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
The church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
God is not looking for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
The church is not a building; the church is not a denomination; the church is not an institution. The church is the people of God.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
The church is a whore, but she's my mother.
The church is the great lost and found department.
The first duty of the church is to make the world acknowledge that it has been created by a Power greater than itself.
Wherever we find love and kindness, God is there.
The church exists for the sake of those outside it.