Example sentences of "god be to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , ‘ All attributes which we ascribe to God are to be taken as denoting , not something special in God , but only something special in the manner in which the feeling of absolute dependence is to be related to him ’ . |
| 2 | But at another level we come to learn that God is to be compared to a good father ( not a mother ) who divides his property between two sons ( not daughters ) . |
| 3 | The suggestion that though God is to be conceived as male , humanity is to be understood as female in relation to God , I shall leave until the next chapter . |
| 4 | For according to the kairos approach , God is to be seen as deeply involved in the direction of human history ! |
| 5 | Thus for example in the quotation which I gave from Anselm , it is to be noted that God is to be seen as a Father in authority and teaching , as a Mother in kindness and mercy . |
| 6 | For one thing , Kant himself had developed the thought that the kingdom of God is to be identified or interpreted as the ethical organisation of human society . |
| 7 | God is to be trusted yet people are doubting : that is justification enough for trying to understand doubt . |
| 8 | Christian priesthood is called to be fully human if God is to be known as fully God . |
| 9 | It is not only the sects that are guilty of fortress mentalities : we have come to believe that God is to be found only in our prayer groups , fellowships and denominational congregations . |
| 10 | Instead he insisted that the truth of God is to be found in it when it is approached in the proper way — by one who is searching in awareness of his own need . |
| 11 | You can trace those through the Bible ; Moses saw the Glory of God — His brightness ; Psalms refers to the Temple , where the splendour of God is to be found ; the shepherds were surrounded by the brightness of God 's Glory , and so was Paul on the road to Damascus . |
| 12 | Taking a more liberal line than the bishop , Temple argued that the finger of God was to be discerned in the laws of nature , not in the current limits of scientific knowledge . |
| 13 | The purpose of these laws was not only to provide guidance for the day-to-day running of the Israelite community , but to teach how a holy God was to be worshipped by a holy people . |
| 14 | On 29 June 1559 , Henri wrote to the pope , that notorious bombast Paul IV , about ‘ the incredible disaster which has since befallen the realm of Scotland to our extreme regret , disgust and displeasure ’ ; the letter stated his ‘ confidence in God who is so signally offended at this wretched plague of ruffians ’ , but God was to be given worldly assistance in the shape of ‘ a large and sufficient force of French soldiers , infantry and cavalry ’ . |
| 15 | In the Bible the voice of God was to be heard speaking with its own authentic power and force : there and there alone was divine truth authentically and immediately available . |
| 16 | The Jews believed that the Holy of Holies was the place where God was to be found . |