Sentence examples for addressing god from inspiring English sources

For those who object to joint prayer by different shades of Christian, the idea of Christians and Muslims jointly addressing God is presumably inconceivable.

"If you want me to get actually shot or even killed with an arrow, then so be it," he wrote, addressing God.

It abandoned the tradition of "biblical English" and, except for the retention of "thou" and "thy" in addressing God, freed itself of all archaisms.

So Milton begins by addressing not a fair mistress or a blooming rose or – he doesn't even begin by addressing God.

They describe him closing his eyes and addressing God with thees and thous, composing his message to suit the occasion, whether at a church meeting, at a hospital bedside or in a solemn moment with family and friends.

Addressing God, he appears to be told to review his life in his own words, and if what he says is approved, he will join his wife and comic partner, Gracie Allen, who had died some years earlier.

They address God respectfully.

Except when she addresses God, she hardly has a line.

In the Lord's Prayer Jesus taught his disciples to address God as "our Father".

"There are a lot of us who feel that the last 35 years of translation has been very banal and pedestrian, and the way that one wants to address God in a liturgy should not be pedestrian," said Brenda Fairaday, a parishioner here since the 1970s and an ardent defender of the church's liturgy.

MacCulloch points out that he continually addresses God as "Abba," Father, or even Dad, and that the expression translated in the King James Version as a solemn "Verily I say unto you" is actually a quirky Aramaic throat-clearer, like Dr. Johnson's "Depend upon it, Sir".