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.

`` Such a church needs vigor and vitality in its rector and one man has only so much of these endowments '', he told his members.

It reported that he now devoted only some 6-1/2 hours per month to public preaching and from 20 to 25 hours per month to church activities.

As a result, they go on thinking of the church, with introverted and self-centered satisfaction, only in connection with the way in which it serves them and their families.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

To a Blackwell, there was only one church.

Being a woman though, she would take only what she needed from church.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

The Church of England was the established church not only in England, but in its trans-Oceanic colonies.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

Alfonso's only brother, Ramiro, had been a Benedictine monk since childhood, and his commitment to the church, his temperament and vow of celibacy made him ill-suited to rule a kingdom under constant military threat and in need of a stable line of succession.

Other terms used are hearth, theod ( only within the Theodish movement ), blotgroup, sippe, and other less popular ones such as garth, stead, church, and others.

Along with his colleague the Archbishop of York he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's important boards and committees ; power in the church is not highly centralised, however, so the two archbishops can often lead only through persuasion.

It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

Apollos only knew of the baptism of John which suggests, as is reflected in Acts, that consistent baptismal practice was still developing in the nascent church.

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

The monarchy continued to endow the Monastery of Alcobaça with further construction and 60 years later King Dinis built the main cloister but it was only in 1252 that the Monastery was inaugurated within the church.

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

The church ruled that Amalric and Agnes ' children were legitimate and preserved their place in the order of succession.

Berlin's best preserved medieval Church of St. Mary's is the 1 < sup > st </ sup > preaching venue – Memorial Church being the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > – of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ( EKBO ), a Protestant regional church body.

A Persian geographer recorded in the mid-9th century that a well preserved and much venerated church existed in the town.

Thus were preserved and securely dated an early decorated church and a synagogue decorated with extensive wall paintings.

His body has been preserved in the abbey church at Bobbio, and many miracles are said to have been wrought there through his intercession.

* St. Mary's Church-former Dominican church, erected in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th and 16th centuries ; damaged in World War II and reconstructed in 1961 as an art gallery ; remnants of cloister are partially preserved

The addresses and sermons of Eusebius are mostly lost, but some have been preserved, e. g., a sermon on the consecration of the church in Tyre and an address on the thirtieth anniversary of the reign of Constantine ( 336 ).

The ingredients of the time varied greatly according to the seasons and the church calendar, and many items were preserved with salt, spices, honey, and other preservatives.

Further heads, no longer available, were once held by the Knights Templar at Amiens Cathedral in France ( brought home by Wallon de Sarton from the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople ), at Antioch in Turkey ( fate uncertain ), and the parish church at Tenterden in Kent, where it was preserved up until the Reformation.

The sarcophagus was saved only when church historian Giacomo Grimaldi arrived and, realizing its importance, ordered it preserved.

Apart from a few preserved buildings such as the museum and church at Grytviken, only their decaying remains survive.

Her skull is preserved in a separate chapel in the church of Sant ' Agnese in Agone in Rome's Piazza Navona.

He knew that for two centuries the succession of bishops in the Church of Alexandria was preserved through ordination by presbyters alone and was considered valid by the ancient church.

In 1321, Pope John XXII made the church of Monte Cassino a cathedral, and the carefully preserved independence of the monastery from episcopal interference was at an end.

As Peter the Great celebrated his victory in the Saviour church, this 17th-century wooden shrine was carefully preserved to this day.

The first is the Norway pavilion, a recreation of a traditional wooden stave church which is now preserved at a museum called Little Norway in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

He was buried in the church of the Sorbonne, where his tomb is still preserved.

The name seems to also be preserved in a church inscription of Salona, dating to the early 5th century.

His body is preserved and venerated in the church of the former Jesuit residence, now renamed in his honor.

Two of the Roman milestones found in Cornwall are at Tintagel ( the earlier of the two is described under Trethevy ): the later one was found in the walls of the churchyard in 1889 and is preserved in the church.

The Berlin Huguenots preserved the French language in their church services for nearly a century.