The church truly is not a rest home for saints, but a hospital for sinners.

There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The service is over, and a number of people come from the church with their spokesman Mityukh in the lead.

The truth, however, is that the ecumenical church is just the local church in its own true character as an integral unit of the whole People of God throughout the world.

The other misconception is that our ecumenical problems will be solved if only the knowledge of the church in its world-wide extension and its interdenominational connections, now comprehended by many national leaders, can be communicated to all congregations.

However needed this may be, the fundamental problem is not information but active commitment to the total mission of the church of Christ in the world.

The basic unit in the church, of whatever denominational polity, is always the congregation.

There is a vast difference between the community of reconciliation which the New Testament describes and the community of congeniality found in the average church building.

He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

But what is this church doing to help its members understand their roles as Christians in the world??

To put it bluntly, many a local church is giving its members only what they consciously want.

There must first be a deeper sense that the church belongs not to us but to Christ, and that it is His purpose, not our own interests and preferences, that determines what it is to be and do.

Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

If we add to these contacts with friendly members the `` contacts with an organization of the church '' ( 11.2 per cent of the cases ), then a substantial two thirds of all recruitment is through friendly contact.

The city of Alcobaça became notable after the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, decided to build there a church to celebrate the Conquest of Santarém, to the Moors, in 1147.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

As such, during his reign, Constantius made a concerted attempt to mold the Christian church to follow this compromise position, and to this end, he convened several Christian councils during his reign, the most notable of which were one at Rimini and its twin at Seleuca, which met in 359 and 360 respectively.

One notable church is the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville, Iowa.

It is notable that, in the gospel, the community still appears to define itself primarily against Judaism, rather than as part of a wider Christian church.

The most notable leader of the movement, though maintaining a certain distance from the Old Catholic Church as an institution, was the renowned church historian and priest Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( 1799 – 1890 ), who had been excommunicated by the pope because of his support for the affair.

Mutley Baptist church is a notable architectural feature.

One of the largest construction projects to that time in North America, the university was notable for being centered about a library rather than a church reinforcing the principle of separation of church and state.

* The medieval church of San Marco dei Veneziani, with a notable rose window in the façade.

Other notable examples include the ruined palace city of Medina Azahara ( 936 – 1010 ), the church ( former mosque ) San Cristo de la Luz in Toledo, the Aljafería in Saragossa and baths at for example Ronda and Alhama de Granada.

In fact notable gemologist George Frederick Kunz discussed the confusion between emeralds and peridots in many church treasures, notably the " Three Magi " treasure in the Dom of Cologne, Germany.

While the diaconate as a permanent order was maintained from earliest Apostolic times to the present in the Eastern churches ( Orthodox and Catholic ), it mostly disappeared in the Western church ( with a few notable exceptions such as St Francis of Assisi ) during the first millennium, with Western churches retaining deacons attached to diocesan cathedrals.

The most notable artwork is the Deposition ( 1476 ) by the Modenese Antonio Begarelli, once in the church of St. John the Baptist.

In one notable example, the former pastor of the East Waynesville Baptist Church in Waynesville, North Carolina " told the congregation that anyone who planned to vote for Democratic Sen. John Kerry should either leave the church or repent ".

Under abbots John Greenwell ( 1442 – 1471 ), Thomas Swinton ( 1471 – 8 ), John Darnton ( 1478 – 95 ), who undertook some much needed restoration of the fabric of the abbey including notable work on the church, and Marmaduke Huby ( 1495 – 1526 ) Fountains regained stability and prosperity.

Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church ( The Stump ), the largest parish church in England with one of the highest towers in England visible in the flat lands of Lincolnshire for miles.

Hardy and his first wife visited Tintagel on various occasions: she drew a sketch of the inside of the church as it was about 1867 R. S. Hawker's poem about the bells of Forrabury refers also to those of Tintagel, but more notable is his one on the Quest for the Sangraal ( first published at Exeter in 1864 ).

* San Pedro, a notable mudéjar church ( 16th century ) with a tower similar to that of the cathedral.

A notable exception to this involves churches, which are often not required to disclose finances to anyone, including church members.

The church contains a notable 15th-century painted pulpit donated by Edward IV.

Also notable are the 12th century church in Tellingstedt and the churches in Hemme and Büsum, which display the traditional coat of arms of the " Geschlechter " inside.

One notable church is Byrd Presbyterian Church.

Though not many buildings survive from this era, one notable exception is the church of St Mary Magdalen in Bermondsey Street, completed in 1690 ( although a church has been recorded on this site from the 13th Century ).