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.

However, it was highly unusual that the eldest son of a noble house would be destined for a career in the church, instead of inheriting his father ’ s title.

Bede says that Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.

* The church of San Gaetano ( 1574 – 1586 ) was designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, on an unusual octagonal plan.

Some ( very rare ) nouns change gender according to the way they are used: the words amour, délice (" love " and " delight, pleasure ") are masculine in singular and feminine in plural ; the word orgue (" organ ") is masculine, but when used emphatically in plural to refer to a church organ it becomes feminine ( les grandes orgues ); the plural name gens (" people ") changes gender in a very unusual way, depending on the adjectives that are used with it.

The Mission church of San Luis Obispo is unusual in its design in that its combination of belfry and vestibule is found nowhere else among the California missions.

* Church monuments – within a church ( or tomb-style chests in a churchyard ) may be places of interment, but this is unusual ; they more commonly stand over the grave or burial vault rather than containing the actual body and are therefore not tombs

The scene where the prisoners are taken to watch a cartoon takes place in a Southern African-American church ; the film notably treats the African-American characters there with a level of respect unusual in films of the period.

Gandesa has a church with unusual and interesting sculptures on the Romanesque porch.

Sited closer to the original Keston Court than the main village itself, Keston's small medieval church is unusual in that does not have a dedication to a saint, but built into the altar-table is the top of the 17th century altar inlaid with a very elaborate cross and inscribed " The Keston Marke: IN HOC SIGNO VINCES ", so the parish has a distinctive symbol instead.

Then as now, Islington was and is unusual in that the village church, St Mary's, does not stand on the high street but is some way off on Upper Street.

The relatively short period of construction for such a large church is fairly unusual in England and an indication of the wealth of Boston.

One unusual feature of the church is the remains of blank arcading on the outside of the south wall of the nave.

Near St Mary's church Church of England, Ferrygate Lane leads to Martham Ferry, where an unusual floating swing bridge crosses the River Thurne.

The town has a traditional Anglican church, St. Margaret's with an ancient tower and an unusual 19th century nave.

The church is unusual in its appearance both inside and out.

It was named for an unusual ,-high lone rock which still stands in the town near the old Methodist church.

The village is somewhat unusual in that the main settlement and church are separated by a river, the Foss.

An unusual feature of the church was a well, sunk into the nave, possibly built in an effort to safeguard the priory's water supplies.

One unusual feature of the church is that its layout is “ L ” shaped, covering the south and west sides of a small plaza.

The layout of the complex is unusual with the cloister on the left or north side of the church.

" In a unique and unusual move however, Bishop Owens became the only sitting leader of the church to be removed from the office of Presiding Bishop through the electoral process.

In Derby Museum there is an unusual bust of William Strutt and in Snaith church there is a notable monument to Viscount Downe by Chantrey.

The church features an unusual tall spire, added in the 12th century, one of Europe's tallest.

In the fall of 1991 former church Archivist Lee Johnson presented a six-page letter of the book's unusual history.

This situation is unusual in a country like France where church and state are more strictly separated than in most other nations.