Attending church Quote by Mark Driscoll

“CHURCH is like a hospital. It’s where people who are sick, broken, bruised, beaten, and battered with life because of sin and unrighteousness come…

— Tony Evans

I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a…

— Ted Haggard

People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We don't know…

— Wendell Berry

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

— Timothy Keller

A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually…

— Mark Dever

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

— Anonymous

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of…

— Lactantius

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church…

— Pope Francis

A church is a hospitals for sinners,not a club for saints

— ChristianQuotes

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.”

— Douglas Wilson

The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that…

— Pope Benedict XVI