Example sentences of "[noun sg] of god [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How regrettable it is that so often in the marriages that we come across , those are the only promises that seem to be made , and the only mention of God within the family . |
| 2 | No wonder its coming puts the fear of God into the Philistines ! |
| 3 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 4 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 5 | The real memories and exaggerated horror stories have combined to strike the fear of God into the Serbian minority in Croatia . |
| 6 | Mark has two ways of emphasising the fact that Jesus is fully and uniquely endowed with the Holy Spirit in his role as Son and Servant of Yahweh , who brings in the kingly rule of God in the end-time . |
| 7 | It is helpful to approach the spiritual continuum which in fact unites them by way of the teaching of the thirteenth-century Franciscan Bonaventura 's description of the light of God as the sun of his divinity and the moon of his humanity . |
| 8 | In order to do so I do not feel that it is necessary to ‘ prove ’ the existence of God in the sense of demonstrating with mathematical certainty that He exists . |
| 9 | However , if theoretical physicists can prove the existence of God by the use of mathematics , I can almost certainly prove that she 's not Nick and his Cave by the same means . |
| 10 | For light is not lacking : ‘ the Gal who commanded light to shine out of ( primeval ) darkness has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ ’ ( 2 Cor. 4:6 ) . |
| 11 | It symbolised the presence of God among the people . |
| 12 | Jewish legend also suggested that Alexander proclaimed the unity of God from the tower of his new city , Alexandria ( Ps. -Callisth . |
| 13 | This is the knowledge which redeems man and is the basis for the contemplative experience of God as the final transforming reality in which joy and sorrow are perceived as harmony not discord . |
| 14 | In 1910 , when the Golden Jubilee of Thomas Street was being celebrated , the Quarterly Board looked at all the work of God on the Circuit and among other things they recorded their feeling that ‘ in Edenderry there is set before us an open door and we are determined to enter in . ’ |
| 15 | Maybe you want to be cautious , knowing that to try and do a work of God by the flesh is to court disaster and possibly a nervous breakdown for good measure . |
| 16 | In August 1945 the Leaders asked the Superintendent , the Reverend Ernest Shaw , to allow the Reverend Thomas Kennedy to concentrate on visitation in the Edenderry district for at least the following 12 months in view of the probable building of a new church and the need for special attention to the work of God in the area . |
| 17 | The armour of God for the fight ( 6:10–19 ) . |
| 18 | The most effective put-down of North during his testimony came from Senator George Mitchell of Maine , stung by the colonel 's constant juxtaposition of God with the contras . |
| 19 | Here he proclaimed the Peace of God for the whole regnum ( realm — an ambiguous term , which may mean simply his demesne , or the old duchy of Francia ) , in accordance with the twentieth canon of the Second Lateran Council ( 1139 ) , and established penalties for the violation of that peace . |
| 20 | Just as bees scatter widely to collect nectar from many flowers , so the ideal of worship is to bring together our wide experiences of the goodness of God from the workaday world . |
| 21 | In a sincere attempt to display the importance of God in the scheme of things , Berkeley sought to rebuild the ‘ new philosophy ’ on the more solidly religious foundations of a complete and thoroughgoing spiritual immaterialism . |
| 22 | For the truth of God in the power of the Spirit can shed light and liberate where the simple recognition of fault or personal deficiency lacks power for transformation . |
| 23 | But he is not directly accessible in any ordinary sense , nor can the necessity of the concept of God for the interpreting of our experience be demonstrated , at least so far as pure reflection on the nature of our knowledge can take us . |
| 24 | So Brunner rejected the possibility of an independent natural theology in which man could attain to knowledge of God through the general revelation in nature ; for the defacing of the image of God in him had made that impossible . |
| 25 | There is much about the love and forgiveness of God in the Old Testament , and much about his righteous anger and judgement in the New . |
| 26 | It is known as ‘ The Song of Hannah ’ , for it purports to be a psalm of thanksgiving sung by Samuel 's mother after the birth of her long-prayed-for son , and his dedication to the service of God at the sanctuary of Shiloh . |
| 27 | Could one , as it were , argue up to the reality and character of God from the analysis of religious experience or ethical awareness , as they had tended to do ? |
| 28 | The manifestation of God in the Indian tradition would take such forms as Brahma , Vi u and Śiva , the trimūrti of the Hindu way of life , and innumerable other gods and goddesses , the veneration of which , in Gandhi 's view , is sometimes inaccurately and insensitively described as idol worship . |
| 29 | In the middle of this he was trying really to listen to the distress of the family and demonstrate something of the compassion of God at the same time . |
| 30 | The no-boundary proposal has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe . |