And when they went to reclaim the Temple, the people of Jerusalem received another gift from God -- the oil that should have lasted only one night burned for eight.

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He argued that just as the Israelites carried off the gold of the Egyptians and put it to their own use, so Christians could and should use the wisdom of the pagan Greeks as a gift from God.

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And tomorrow, my family will join Christians around the world as we thank God for the all-important gift of grace through the resurrection of His son, and experience the wonder of Easter morning.

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Nowhere is this truer than in depictions of his most famous French character, that gift of God to the gastric juices, the temperamental chef Anatole.

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The Catholic Church is never going to view marriage except from the perspective of a sacrament, an unbreakable bond between one man and one woman, open to the God-given gift of children.

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Earlier, Dr John described his relationship as a "gift from God", in a statement on the Diocese of Oxford website.

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It is almost as if God gave her the gift and she really took advantage of it.

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It calls for a maturity that allows the Church to move beyond control to discerning human flourishing as a gift of God.

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If you see life as a gift from God, you will probably not make the same choices about the reproduction of life, and its termination, as you would if you saw existence on earth as your own to regulate as far as possible.

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