Church Is A Hospital Quotes

#1. The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Abigail Van Buren

#2. because I wanted to

Craig Johnson

#3. A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. 'A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes.

Bryan Cogman

#5. The Church is not merely a hospital or a halfway house to check in and out for weekend visits.

DeBorrah K. Ogans

#6. The two of you are different now, calmer. There is still sex, occasionally, but is no longer a priority to seduce or be seduced by him.

Sarah Hall

#7. I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Pope Francis

#8. A new nation needs new people - people who take an active civil position and social responsibility

Sunday Adelaja

#9. The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

Tony Verna

#11. The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Timothy Keller

#12. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Lindsey Graham

#13. The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

John Osteen

#14. 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

#15. The church is not a museum for saints it's a hospital for sinners.

Abigail Van Buren

#16. Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Nicky Gumbel

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

Jeffrey R. Holland

#18. You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

Bob Dylan

#20. Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death.
[Lat., Truditur dies die,
Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

Horace

#21. A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

Meister Eckhart

#22. Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

Ann Landers

#23. A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Randy Alcorn

#24. The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

Mark Driscoll

#25. People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

Matthew Bourne

#26. many religious folks call a "spiritual hospital" (church) for the "spiritually sick," usually ends up being a place where everyone looks healthy? So instead of being a place where we can "be ourselves," the church usually ends up being a place where we pretend everything is okay.

Joshua Tongol

#27. America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.

Charlaine Harris

#28. For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Gerald R. Ford

#29. An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#30. the church community is a hospital for recovering addicts to selfishness.

Winfield Bevins

#31. I will rather have a hospital in every city to cure people of diseases on daily basis than sitting in church and expecting miracles..

Sunday Adelaja

#32. We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Jesse McCartney

#33. We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#34. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Alexei Sayle