“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”

“East coasters ... attenders at the church of What Is”

“In the United States, numbers impress us. We gauge the success of an event by how many people attend or come forward. We measure churches by how many members they boast. We are wowed by big crowds.”

“I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie.”

“He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.”

“Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.”