My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

The steady purpose of our society is to assure justice, before God, for every individual.

It is not the authority of God Himself which makes them true.

Because God is what He is, the laws of the universe, material and spiritual, are what they are.

Forgiveness is the door through which a person must pass to enter the Kingdom of God.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

Then he thought of Aaron Blaustein standing in his rich house saying: `` God is tired of taking the blame.

It is harder, he muttered, to meditate on man ( or woman ) than on God.

I pray to God that he may be spared to us for many years to come for this is an influence the United States and the whole world can ill afford to lose.

This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.

Believing that God is the Author of this law and of all laws of nature, Roman Catholics believe that they are obliged to obey those laws, not frustrate or mock them.

The truth, however, is that the ecumenical church is just the local church in its own true character as an integral unit of the whole People of God throughout the world.

Since the will and word of God are for them concentrated in Christ-like love, it seems clear to them that non-violent resistance is quite another thing.

But of course the paterollers won't be of any help, not with everything so upset and that Yankee cavalry outfit they say is running around, God knows where ''.

Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '', or, as is also commonly implied, that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same thing??

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.

Please, dear God, make my pilots good, he prayed.

`` But why in the name of God can't I give my father blood ''??

When you see them again give them my love -- not best respects now, but love by God ''.

`` Make a couple of punk detectives named Geely and Harris wish to God they'd stayed out of my way this afternoon.

Again, as faith reveals God my Father and Christ my Saviour, I follow without question where He leads me daily by His Spirit of love, wisdom, power and prayer.

This is the faith that moved the psalmist to add his second conception of God: `` The Lord is my salvation ''.

And so the psalmist gives us one more picture of God: `` The Lord is the strength of my life ''.

I had also thought a lot about how God must look on true love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to God, my promise to remain pure until I was married.

`` Oh, my God '', Ham Richert said, `` a little child shall lead them.

" A person ranking at 7 on the scale would be a person who says " I know there is no God ..." Dawkins places himself at 6 on the scale, which he characterizes as " I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there ", but leaning toward 7.

Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son.

would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Addressing an idol, Abu Bakr said " O my God, I am in need of beautiful clothes ; bestow them on me ".

The Latter-day Saint Endowment prayer circle once included use of the words " Pay Lay Ale ", which some adherents believed were Adamic words meaning " Oh God, hear the words of my mouth ".

states that God said, " You are my son.

" Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God " ~ at the Council of Nicæa ( c. 325 )

Orpah reluctantly leaves ; however, Ruth says, " Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following you ; For wherever you go, I will go ; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge ; Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

" Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is.

Job again expresses his desire for a witness, and then declares, “ my eyes pour out tears to God, that he would maintain the right of a man with God ”.

The Three Witnesses testified to having seen an angel present the gold plates, and to having heard God bear witness to its truth.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

Muslims declare the shahada, or testimony: " I bear witness that there is no god but ( the One ) God ( Allah ), and I bear witness that Muhammad is God's messenger.

* Seeking God ’ s transformation of 1, 000 existing Congregations in ways that will renew their witness.

: " O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it ; that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him, and keep his commandments which he hath * given them, that they may always have his Spirit to be with them.

: " O God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee, in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this water * to the souls of all those who drink of it, that they may do it in remembrance of the blood of thy Son, which was shed for them ; that they may witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they do always remember him, that they may have his Spirit to be with them.

The Qur ' an speaks of the oneness of God: " Allah has borne witness that there is no God but Him-and the angels, and those with knowledge also witness this.

By refusing to swear, he felt that he could bear witness to the value of truth in everyday life, as well as to God, who he associated with truth and the inner light.

But I, though I saw and heard these things, refused to write for a long time through doubt and bad opinion and the diversity of human words, not with stubbornness but in the exercise of humility, until, laid low by the scourge of God, I fell upon a bed of sickness ; then, compelled at last by many illnesses, and by the witness of a certain noble maiden of good conduct nun Richardis von Stade and of that man whom I had secretly sought and found, as mentioned above, I set my hand to the writing.

On March 11, 1969, the Great Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ) solemnly proclaimed the Act of the Universal Church Canonization of the Staretz Herman to Sainthood in the Orthodox Church in America: " Taking into consideration the long and undisputed witness of the grace of God, appearing through the servant of God, the Staretz Herman of Alaska.

" The common denominator of these various opinions is summed up in bearing witness that God is the Lord, L. Gardet states.

The fragments of the work " On the Resurrection " begin with the assertion that the truth, and God the author of truth, need no witness, but that as a concession to the weakness of men it is necessary to give arguments to convince those who gainsay it.

Thus, in Surah 3: 52 of the Qur ' an, Jesus ’ disciples tell Jesus, " We believe in God ; and you be our witness that we are Muslims ( wa-shahad be anna muslimūn ).