For him to divorce God and wife simultaneously would be bad publicity.

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.

For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.

Someday God would choose him.

But the thought occurred that God would want this opportunity used to tell them about Him.

These would be two human beings, whom God had chosen.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

He'd come East for the christening, by God he would.

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.

And He laid down for him certain conditions: so that, if he kept the command of God, then he would always remain as he was, that is, immortal ; ;

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 ).

He knew that his God would save him from his enemies because He had saved him from his sins.

Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it.

It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.

" 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.

Jesus also maintained that the time would come when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who were in the tombs would come out, the faithful to the resurrection of life, and the unfaithful to the resurrection of judgment.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

This reversal would evidently be counter to the expressed Creative Will of God.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

Which human birth would have been more worthy of God, than the one, in which the Immaculate Son of God maintained the purity of his immaculate origin while becoming human?

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

He ascribes to the mercy of God the peace which this personal matter -- the assurance that he can physically sustain the burden of the office longer than any individual in the history of our nation has been able to do -- has brought him.

we do well to conform this way with all that God requires.

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

Furthermore, Bern decrees that we must do as we are ordered by the Council, preach only the word of God and stop meddling in politics ''!!

My God, how much more do you want ''??

But, as Scripture everywhere reminds us, God does have need of his creatures, and the church, a fortiori, can ill afford to do without the talents with which the world, by God's providence, presents it.

We trust you are not one of the 70,000,000 Americans who do not attend church, but who feel that various forms of recreation are more important than worshipping the God who made our country great.

Turning to the Word of God, we find the only sure way to do that.

If God could do that, He could do anything.

They earnestly desire to do the will of God.

If we are born of God we do not practice sin as a habit.

You may do as you please with God now.

The more canvassing I do, the more I note how far most people are from their personal God ''.

He does not do it for any grand, religious purpose, like Paneloux ( Rieux does not believe in God ), or as part of a high-minded moral code, like Tarrou.

Angels are either spirits that have not yet come to earth to experience their mortality, or spirits or resurrected beings that have already passed through mortality and do the will of God.

According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.

* God purposely exercises his sovereignty in ways that do not illustrate its extent – in other words, He has the power and authority to predetermine salvation but he chooses to apply it through different means.

Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.

Even before hostilities commenced in Europe, one of the most played songs on radio was Irving Berlin's " God Bless America ," popularized by CBS's own Kate Smith.

On December 11, 1969, the Flyers introduced what would become one of the team's best-known traditions: playing a recording of Kate Smith singing God Bless America instead of the The Star-Spangled Banner before important games.

Throughout the 1973 – 74 season, the Flyers often used a recording of Kate Smith singing " God Bless America " instead of the national anthem.

O ' Connor had a long-running friendship with actor Larry Hagman, beginning in 1959, when Carroll was working as an assistant stage manager for the Broadway play God and Kate Murphy, in which Hagman starred.

Hagman appeared in four other Broadway plays, God and Kate Murphy, The Nervous Set, The Warm Peninsula and The Beauty Part.

The video for " God Bless America ", from March 1984, featured backing singers Zan Abeyratne and Kate Ceberano ( both members of I'm Talking ).

Kathryn Elizabeth " Kate " Smith ( May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986 ) was an American singer, an Alto, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's " God Bless America ".

Before games whenever God Bless America is performed, Lou Nolan, the PA announcer for the Flyers at Wells Fargo Center would say: " Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we ask that you please rise and remove your hats and salute to our flags and welcome the number 1 ranked anthemist in the NHL, Lauren Hart, as she sings ( if the visiting team is from Canada, O Canada ( or Canadian national anthem ) followed by ) God Bless America, accompanied by the great Kate Smith.

On May 19, 2010, the 36th anniversary of the date that she sang " God Bless America " before the Flyers clinched their first championship, the U. S. Postal Service held a ceremony attended by players from that championship team announcing the release of the Kate Smith US postage stamp in front of her statue at the Spectrum.

Those simple but deeply moving words, ' God bless America ,' have taken on added meaning for all of us because of the way Kate Smith sang them.

In giving us a magnificent, selfless talent like Kate Smith, God has truly blessed America.

On July 21, 2011, Kate Smith's version of " God Bless America " was played as NASA's final wake up call for the space shuttle Atlantis, ending the 30-year shuttle program.

* Kate Smith Sings God Bless America, 1930s

Tired of hearing Kate Smith sing it on the radio, he wrote a response originally called " God Blessed America ".

Musical acts included a duet of " God Bless America " featuring a recorded Kate Smith alongside a live Lauren Hart, headliner Earth, Wind & Fire, with the very last set being a performance by Elvis interpreter Johnny Seaton.

* A statue of Kate Smith, the Flyers ' good luck charm, whose rendition of " God Bless America " is believed to have helped the Flyers become back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions in 1974 and 1975 ;

During the deciding Game 5 of the 2011 National League Division Series, Lauren Hart ( the daughter of Hockey Hall of Fame broadcaster Gene Hart ) appeared at Citizens Bank Park to sing God Bless America during the seventh-inning stretch as she had become a fixture at Philadelphia Flyers games singing that song in duet with Kate Smith as the Flyers ' good-luck charm before important games, with the hope that Hart would also bring that luck to the Philadelphia Phillies as well.

The film ends with the appearance of the National Guard, who surround Lady Divine on the street and shoot her down, accompanied by the sound of Kate Smith singing " God Bless America ".

They hit the road for five years, with Lapchick handling driving duties, and Kate Smith singing " God Bless America " at games.