The father of Abu Bakr asked him to for why doesn't he liberate strong and young slaves who could be a source of strength for him, Abu Bakr replied that he was freeing the slaves for the sake of God, and not for his own sake.

The origin of the term " born again " is the New Testament: " Jesus replied, ' Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.

It is narrated in the < U > memoirs of the apostles </ U > that as soon as Jesus came up out of the river Jordan and a voice said to him: ' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you ', this Devil came and tempted him, even so far as to exclaim: ' Worship me '; but Christ replied: ' Get behind me, Satanas, the Lord your God shall you worship, and Him only shall you serve '.

Pharaoh replied that he did not know their God and would not permit them to go.

When asked by a Crusader how to distinguish between the Catholics and Cathars once they'd taken the city of Béziers, the Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric famously replied, " Kill them all, God will know His own ".

", Peter replied: " You are Christ, the Son of the living God ".

" " For mercy, yes ," one of his attendants replied, " But from God, not you.

", to which she replied, " I asked you and you would not listen ; so I asked my God and he did listen.

When Knight was asked about the positive verdict he replied " God is good, Happy Holidays ".

Replying to a hypothetical question as to why God does not do that which is ethically wrong ( la yaf ` alu al-qabih ), ' Abd al-Jabbar replied ( as translated in Martin et al., 1997 ): Because He knows the immorality of all unethical acts and that He is self-sufficient without them … For one of us who knows the immorality of injustice and lying, if he knows that he is self-sufficient without them and has no need of them, it would be impossible for him to choose them, insofar as he knows of their immorality and his sufficiency without them.

In this connection, too, one may quote the old story, told by some — very improbably — of James II, of the monarch who replied to a lady petitioning him to make her son a gentleman, " I could make him a nobleman, but God Almighty could not make him a gentleman.

Full of devotion, Akiva recited his prayers calmly, though suffering agonies ; and when Rufus asked him whether he was a sorcerer, since he felt no pain, Akiva replied, " I am no sorcerer ; but I rejoice at the opportunity now given to me to love my God ' with all my life ,' seeing that I have hitherto been able to love Him only ' with all my means ' and ' with all my might ,'" and with the word " One!

Abraham replied that he thought there was no fear of God in that place, and that they might kill him for his wife.

: He replied " Ar-Riya ( showing off ), for verily God will say on the Day of Resurrection when people are receiving their rewards, ' Go to those for whom you were showing off in the material world and see if you can find any reward from them.

After the sentence had been pronounced, Latimer added, ' I thank God most heartily that He hath prolonged my life to this end, that I may in this case glorify God by that kind of death '; to which the prolocutor replied, ' If you go to heaven in this faith, then I will never come hither, as I am thus persuaded.

The locals were unsupportive ; on hearing that Catesby's party stood for " God and Country ", they replied that they were for " King James as well as God and Country ".

Ibn ‘ Arabī asked him: “ Who are you ?” He replied: “ I am al-Sabtī ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd .” Later Ibn ‘ Arabī asked him: “ What was the reason of choosing Saturday for work ?” He replied: “ As God has made this universe in six days from Sunday to Friday, and he rested on Saturday, so I, as His servant worked on Saturday and devoted myself to worshipping Lord for the rest of the week .” In another glorious vision at Kaaba Ibn ‘ Arabī saw his forefathers and asked one of them his time, he replied he had been dead around forty thousand years ago.

On 13 May Charles ordered Skippon to join him at York, but Skippon replied " I desire to honour God and not to honour men " and Parliament declared Charles's order illegal.

The earl asserted that by the feudal tenure of his lands he was only compelled to serve across the seas in the company of the king himself, whereupon Edward said, " By God, Earl, you shall either go or hang ," to which Bigod replied, " By the same oath, O king, I will neither go nor hang.

' Simon Peter replied, ' You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.

God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.

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

I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

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

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.

A fellow came up to me, a Senator, I don't have to tell you his name, and he told me, ' I love the President like a brother, but God damn it, he's crucifying me.

If I hafta do this to stay alive by God I'll do it.

So, I say, Mr. Speaker, God bless you and keep you for many years not only for this body but for the United States of America and the free world.

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.

( I sometimes feel that God, in His infinite wisdom, wants us to have these inexplicable little lapses of memory.

`` A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify ''.

Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

God knows how, but I got it.

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

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.

I discern no limits to a faith vested in God and Christ, who is the sum of all wisdom and knowledge, and daring to trust Him even though called to stand alone before the world.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

In assigning to God the responsibility which he learned could not rest with his doctors, Eisenhower gave evidence of that weakening of the moral intuition which was to characterize his administration in the years to follow.

He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.

Who was the God whom he thinke we serve??

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

God was everywhere, in the belfry, in the steeple, in the clouds, in the trees, and in the mountains hulking on the horizon.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

It could never happen as long as God was alert and the Drew steeple stood guard with its peaked lance.

The cold, mysterious presence of God was all around him.

Those who refused to believe that He was the eternal Son of God were termed Arianists.

But perhaps this was a part of the eternal plan, that man's ambition when linked with God would be a driving, indefatigable force for good in the world.

What in the name of God was he doing, crouched in a timbered pit on the wrong bank of the river??

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

For ' God had not rained ', says the Scripture, before man was made, and there was no man to till the earth.

From this earth, then, while it was still virgin God took dust and fashioned the man, the beginning of humanity ''.