Church Shopping?

“No matter how much you search for a kind priest or a perfect community, you will not find it—just as you will not find a perfect marriage or an ideal child. We do not enter the Church as into some party where YOU begin to judge and distribute justice. In the Church, you are on a ship with the sick who have been saved from the sea. We are not saints—neither the priest nor the laity. We all have passions and weaknesses, but we wish to remain here until the very end.”

– Venerable Elder Sophrony (Sakharov)