Example sentences of "[prep] god 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this spirit rules our hearts and minds we shall be fashioning a Burma after God 's own heart . |
| 2 | Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife , to live together after God 's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony ? |
| 3 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt , however , that a sense of God 's presence and of the supernatural in general were long-standing characteristics of Irish popular religion , along with magical and semi-magical local religious practices . |
| 5 | In the other , the church is founded but taken over early on by the Popes in Rome and by priests who use magic and ritual to gain control of God 's people , thus profaning his divine word . |
| 6 | One thing is certain : she is human — one of God 's children and equal in His eyes to you . |
| 7 | Andrew Greeley encapsulates it well in his phrase ‘ the sacrementality of human sexuality , ’ to which is allied a concept we shall repeatedly discover in Leonard , of women as the ‘ sacraments par excellence of God 's attractive love , ’ to use another of Greeley 's telling insights . |
| 8 | The felicity of God was not a piece of theological reasoning , but an essential part — a large and essential part — of God 's being and the world 's essence . |
| 9 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 10 | Now one of the interesting cameos of God 's providence , prominently found in the Talmud and among the Hasidim , is the idea that in every generation are 36 tsadihim , pious or righteous men , who ( though unknown ) keep the world going . |
| 11 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 12 | Both affirm the necessity of translating into social terms a Christian critique of existing society , and both emphasise the theological centrality of the notion of God 's ‘ preferential option for the poor ’ in any such critique . |
| 13 | It is important to realise that divine impassibility is an aspect of God 's immutability , that God is utter perfection and completely self-sufficient and therefore can not be subject to change . |
| 14 | But , it may be objected , what of God 's relationship with His creation and the men and women He has made ? |
| 15 | But we must never forget the inadequacy of all human language before the mystery of God 's essential being , of God as God . |
| 16 | These lead now not to mere eternal recurrence , but , redeemed , to spiritual content and the possibility of a peace beyond time in the search for the word which is both the word of God 's grace , healing , and the ‘ cry ’ of the poet aspiring . |
| 17 | Essentially the assertive female cross-dresser inverted the metaphysics of difference : from being a divine law inscribed essentially in each of God 's subjects and which knowledge of self would confirm , sexual identity and sexual difference are shifted irretrievably into the domain of custom , of the social , of that which can be contested . |
| 18 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 19 | Frontier Youth Trust is a national evangelical movement working to share a common vision of God 's concern to meet the total needs of young people . |
| 20 | The coming of God 's Kingdom involves the restoration of people to wholeness and health . |
| 21 | Descartes had thought that its existence could be demonstrated on the basis of God 's goodness . |
| 22 | Berkeley 's seventeenth-century predecessors were as anxious as he was to suggest that the regularity of nature is a manifestation of God 's goodness ; but in making an independent material world the cause of ideas , they give God a less crucial role than Berkeley does . |
| 23 | They are not ‘ the result of any immutable habitudes , or relations between things themselves , but only of God 's goodness and kindness to men in the administration of the world ’ . |
| 24 | However , our error is to think of God 's Law as though it were a legal system . |
| 25 | The absence of joy in his religious life was only the inevitable effect of his conception of God 's method of saving man ; in parting with the Lutheran truth concerning justification he parted with the springs of gladness . |
| 26 | It is in essence a theological position which has already decided in advance that the Bible is the pure undistilled fountain of God 's clear revelation and that to doubt its veracity in just one particular is to bring the entire edifice to the ground . |
| 27 | Sometimes , perhaps often , on that road we have many encouragements ; there come signs of God 's grace . |
| 28 | From the Christian perspective we are ‘ insiders ’ , part and parcel of God 's design , and woe betide us if we take the position of the Creator . |
| 29 | God did not depend upon us for his creation ; indeed , I have heard it expressed rather forcefully that humankind is not one of God 's better experiments ! |
| 30 | But it will mean some form of acceptable lifestyle that will subject us to the discipline of God 's world and the needs of his creation . |