A Quote by Pauline Phillips

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

Pauline Phillips

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Pauline Phillips
American - Journalist
July 4, 1918 - January 16, 2013

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

Ann Landers

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

Timothy Keller

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

Oscar Wilde

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

Philip Yancey

The Church is holy, although there are sinners within her. Those who sin, but who cleanse themselves with true repentance, do not keep the Church from being holy. But unrepentant sinners are cut off, whether visibly by Church authority, or invisible by the judgement of God, from the body of the Church. And so in this regard the Church remains holy.

Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

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

John Osteen

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

Peter Kreeft

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Billy Joel

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

Ben Zobrist

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

Kate Williams

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.