She referred to helping her children surmount their problems as God's work.
But as readers of the Old Testament know, Jonah emerges from the whale a changed man, redeemed and willing to carry on God's work.
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"I get a charge out of creating things, " he says, adding that there are many other ways to do God's work besides preaching on Sundays.
When you look at where Madonna's career is today in the same week we learned Whitney Houston drowned in a foot of water, you're reminded that God truly does work in mysterious ways.
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This insight runs counter to a commonly understood formula in which success is created from equal portions of hard work, God-given talent and luck.
To look back where I've come from, to where I've come, is to see God's grace at work.
God does, indeed, work in mysterious ways, so we will truly never know if certain teams are favored.
She said she had no choice in her calling, and had to follow the path set for her by God, even if her work sometimes brought as much criticism as praise.
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.
Mr. BOB CASEY (Democratic Senatorial Candidate, Pennsylvania): My understanding of the common good also comes from my faith, faith in God that all things will ultimately work to his greater good.
My theology, belief, philosophy is that God gives people a chance to work out what they want to work out in life and then there are good people and there are evil people and there are a lot of in between people.
It is another way in which you and I can work out the image of God that resides in us.
Despite their longing for home, they gave their hands to work, their faith in God, their future to this United States of America.
But until that day, we're called to work on behalf of a God that chose justice and mercy and compassion to the most vulnerable.
For most people, knowing they're running late for work strikes the fear of God within them and as a result, they move like there's a fire under their feet to get ready.
Just last month, it was inspiring to see thousands of young Christians filling the Georgia Dome at the Passion Conference, to worship the God who sets the captives free and work to end modern slavery.
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That's when Americans will come back to work and realize that, my God, Y2K is ninety days away.
The priest is miserable: he no longer feels the presence of God, yet he carries on with his work, offering the sacraments to prisoners and consoling the sick and the dying.
"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.
So if successful businesses are continually looking to eliminate jobs in order to achieve productivity gains, subsidization of work creation itself must be a false God.
Would God give her grace in carrying out an unusual piece of work?
"Today in the world this slavery is being committed against something beautiful that God has given us - the capacity to create, to work, to have dignity, " the Pope said at a private Mass.
That is our duty, to build that bright future, to teach our children that, in America, there is no chasm too deep, no barrier too great, no ceiling too high for all who work hard, who keep going, have faith in God, in our country, and each other.
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