Example sentences of "god [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Particularly he loves the procession , in which God is blessed for the fruits of the field and the parish bounds are maintained ; in which there is charity in loving , walking together , and mercy in relieving the poor . ’ |
| 2 | I turn then to the interest in Christian circles of late in trying to mitigate the exclusively male , or masculine , way in which God is understood in the bible and in Christian symbolism . |
| 3 | It is clear from this that for Rolle prayer was the most important exercise by which the reality of faith is realised , which is why he deals with it first after the section on the necessity for patience in adversity : Prayer is the means by which the transforming dynamic of the love of God is accessed in the innermost marrow ( " inhirliest mergh " ) of our hearts ( 7.118.28 ) and labour becomes light ( 11.123.30 ) . |
| 4 | Ian Coffey of the Evangelical Alliance : ‘ I just sense this to be a confirmation of what God is saying to the church . |
| 5 | Because therefore God is working within the sphere of history , great emphasis is made of the ‘ primacy of action ’ . |
| 6 | When God is posited as the First Cause , the very ideas of cause and effect are being torn out of the context in which they properly belong , that of the perceived regularities in the world of which we are aware . |
| 7 | God is known through the people of Israel and the history of the church . |
| 8 | Sin stains our lives and God is repelled by the sight . |
| 9 | The ideal ( expressed in words again reminiscent of Newman ) is a harmonious consensus of the faithful and the bishops ; but authority in interpretation of the Word of God is vested in the ‘ living teaching office ’ entrusted to the bishops . |
| 10 | The coming of God is linked with the making of rain both through the ‘ nimbus ’ and in what follows . |
| 11 | As Rene Padilla cautions , ‘ To speak of the Kingdom of God is to speak of the purpose of God , of which the empirical church is little more than a pale reflection ’ ( Padilla 1975:43 ) . |
| 12 | An excellent short defence of female imagery for God is provided by The Motherhood of God , a report commissioned by the Church of Scotland and published by the St Andrew 's Press . |
| 13 | In The Upanishads ( Hindu sacred texts ) God is described in the following terms : |
| 14 | His position is such , however , that it does produce the paradox that God is described in the same context as an impersonal force and the essence of life , and also as omniscient , omnipotent , and benevolent . |
| 15 | Anything that will ultimately be displeasing to God is included in the idea of ‘ obeying in the Lord ’ . |
| 16 | God is conveyed through the use of metaphors which are male not female . |
| 17 | This is no pretend story , but one that stresses real earthiness — God 's coming to the profane and ending the separation between sacred and secular . |