Southerners have a joke: Mercedes station wagons and wearing mink in Texas are God's way of telling you that you have too much money.
Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.
Human beings are all God's creatures and are all endowed with dignity and respect.
So sure are they that God and history are on their side, he says, that they have grown complacent.
There are few God of War or Uncharted coffee mugs at Walmart or T-shirts at Hot Topic.
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Not only are they God's creatures, like the rest of us, but since 1981 they have been protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
Some of them might think that God prefers really, really big houses and then there are those where God wants to drop in on the hired help in the city or on the waterfront depending on the season.
Pentecostals believe that when people are anointed by God, nothing evil can hurt them.
We are apart from God, who is pure being, who is himself, who is outside of time.
If you are a wrathful god, you will create a dark, unfriendly land and a vicious creature.
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Mr Obama's problems with God are not limited to Trinity United Church, which he formally abandoned this week.
The very fact that animals like sheep are offered to God is based on their analogous relationship to man.
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It symbolises equality - all men and women are equal in God's eyes.
The Nimrods, Nebuchadnezzars, Cyruses, Alexanders, Ceasars, Khans and Charlemagnes of global history are, thank God, quite rare.
If you are a benign god, your land will be green and lovely, and your creature civilised and affectionate.
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The new radicals are enthralled by God, by Islam and by tradition.
Treating the Torah as a literary unit sheds much light on this: throughout the rest of the Torah Israelites are reminded that God is their shmr, their Keeper, their Shepherd.
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The point is, the workahol-a-beast can perhaps be tamed if we ask for help and adopt the uber-efficiency strategies that I hope to God are spelled out in The 4-Hour Workweek.
God is a central and evolving character, and human relations with God are quirky and evolving as well, so reading across the Bible can have a unique feel for the sensitive reader.
While selflessly serving mankind springs to mind, I would argue that a scientist selflessly serving science, an artist serving art, a corporation serving customers or a monk serving God are also valid examples of transcendent purpose.
When you're in the mirror maybe you are good guy, maybe here you are bad guy, God knows.
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"Ultimately, it came down to the Bible's overarching themes of love and compassion and my belief that we are all children of God, " the senator wrote.
Scientists are still hedging their bets by using the phrase "Higgs-like" in their press material, but when the chances of observing the same experimental results sans God Particle are one in 550 million, we'd say it's pretty safe to drop the pretense.
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They're based on the emerging consensus we heard from all the groups with whom we spoke, including some of you who are victims of this god-awful occurrence -- ways to keep guns out of the wrong hands, as well as ways to take comprehensive action to prevent violence in the first place.
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