"I would include the supernatural force - the presence of God - and then suggest that the man picked to do this kind of work be wise and that he should know how to gather strength not just from within himself but from God, " he says.

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Under attack, after all, is not the idea of divinity as such but a representation of God deriving from an ancient folktale which exists in Persian, Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian variants as well as in Hebrew.

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But I think children are a blessing from God.

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Neither of them got through high school, but I learned from them to appreciate all of God's gifts.

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It is God himself who builds the house, but from living stones sealed by his Spirit.

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That moment, the kite saw fit to swoop down and take my toast away from me, leaving, thank God, my eye whole, but a deep, bleeding gash just under it.

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That conflicts not only with the limbic-system theory but also with earlier reports of a so-called God Spot that derived partly from work conducted on epileptics.

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Williams recorded both secular and gospel music, but in 1970 he committed to working solely with artists from the Church of the Living God in Toledo, Ohio, where he himself learned how to play pedal steel guitar.

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The elder of Eteso, Nana Kwabena Afful II, has welcomed the project as "what God intended for us to do, but we have lost sight of - benefiting from his creation and still keeping it intact".

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And at that moment, I remember specifically saying to God, I know that millions of women have died from this disease, but if you're real, now is the time that I need you to prove it to me.

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Whether or not we can lay psychiatric suffering at the feet of God is too philosophical a question for this blog, but wherever mental illness comes from, the names we give it, the categories we use to describe it, were created by men and women, not nature.

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But defense lawyers say the strange plan shows how disconnected Tarloff was from reality, and his conviction that God approved it illustrates the depths of his delusions.

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"MPs from all parties came up privately and said 'thank you for doing that and there but for the grace of God go I', " Luce says.

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