Example sentences of "of god [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of how the Spirit of God guides us is one which confronts every humble Christian . |
| 2 | Let the love of God fill you , garrison you ! |
| 3 | Isaac remained his father 's sole heir , and on Abraham 's death the blessing of God became his . |
| 4 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 5 | And the man of God told her to go out and talk to her neighbours and come back with as many empty jars as she could borrow . |
| 6 | Not only do the beatitudes speak to these types , but they also promise the gifts of God to redeem us from ourselves . |
| 7 | They can make us grateful that we have so much ( there but for the grace of God go I … ) . |
| 8 | In a well-known collection of essays , New Essays in Philosophical Theology , Antony Flew argues that believers will never answer the question : What event or series of events would provide sufficient evidence against the existence of God to stop you believing ? |
| 9 | What picture of God do you show in your beliefs ? |
| 10 | ‘ What in the name of God do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 11 | But let smaller pictures of God satisfy us and squeeze him out , and we are back on the easier road to cheap grace and nominal faith . |
| 12 | And what sort of God did they believe was best worshipped in a basilica that leaves no lily ungilded ? |
| 13 | The spirit of God reveals it to him … ‘ |
| 14 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 15 | I wanted with the help of God to coax you away from such terrible thoughts . |
| 16 | So God created man in his own image , in the image of God created he them ; male and female he created them . |
| 17 | A wide view of God gives us a perspective on life that is not cramped by our everyday circumstances . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ The hand of God saved me , Lucy . ’ |
| 19 | Whatever the meaning for those twelve disciples on that short mission ( and the Spirit may well have come upon them temporarily as he did upon the Old Testament of God to equip them for a special purpose ) , it is hard to mistake the shadow this event casts towards the time of the Church , when men sent out by Jesus ( ‘ sent one' is the root meaning of the word ‘ apostle ’ ) would be equipped by the Spirit given them by Jesus , for carrying out Jesus ' own mission in the world . |