Church Is A Hospital For Sinners Quotes & Sayings

The church is not a museum for saints it's a hospital for sinners. — Abigail Van Buren

I had a Velcro wallet in a casino. That sound annoyed the hell out of me. Whenever I lost money, and I opened the wallet, it was like the sound of my addiction. — Mitch Hedberg

A favored bit from "A Legend of Good Men"

"My mother and I each had our routines. She taught high school, took long hikes in the state parks near our house, read mystery novels, and sometimes disappeared with explanations as thin as, "I just need a few days," or "I'm going to visit a friend."
"Which friend?" I would ask.
"That's right," she would say. — David Vann

She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped. — Nick Hornby

The truth doesn't only excist of what you see. — Arthur Japin

For the church to act as if it dare not have any dealings with sinners is as much a betrayal of its mission as it would be for a hospital to turn away sick people or for a carpenter to refuse to touch rough-cut wood. — Robert Farrar Capon

I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners. — Timothy Keller

A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners. — Randy Alcorn

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust. — Ozzy Osbourne

When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart. — Eric Cantona

It is your differences that make you glorious. — Neil Gaiman

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. — Eric Church

All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world". — Jay Woodman

I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you're having an intellectual exchange with the author, following his or her train thought and you accompany each other for weeks on end. — Sophie Divry

It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being. — Pam Brown

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships. — George Robinson

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners. — Ann Landers

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. — Abigail Van Buren