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Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect! -- Nicky Gumbel
If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself. -- Charles Spurgeon
If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it. -- Billy Graham
Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church. -- J. C. Ryle
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. -- Charles Spurgeon
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. -- C. S. Lewis
Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect. -- Andrew Greeley
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. -- C. S. Lewis
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church. -- Rich Mullins
In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass. -- Heather Nova
The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. -- John Osteen
Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering. -- Richard Gaffin
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds. -- James K. Polk
If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all. -- Charles Spurgeon
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
With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing. -- Shane Claiborne
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. -- Swami Vivekananda

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