Sentence examples for god's approval from inspiring English sources
With all the rules we set up for ourselves, it's easy to think following them is the way to get God's approval and love.
Critics responded that Iran's Islamic leaders might not be so self-restrained, given their belief that martyrdom wins God's approval; that Iran might share the bomb with terrorists, just as it shares conventional weapons; and that having nuclear protection might encourage Iran to be more provocative in local conflicts involving lesser arms.
They also use several literary devices to signal God's approval for one or another sexual liaison: The law or a prophet might prescribe it, Jesus might endorse it, or God might reward it with the greatest of all blessings: boy babies who go on to become powerful men.
The divine right of those in the closed old-boy networks is supposed to be giving way to all possibility, but what has been left by the wayside is the idea that the early American ethic came from work being done first for "God's approval," beyond the individual, for some larger purpose.
Sermons from the pulpit sanctioned their hate and baptized their bigotry with God's approval.
To make a long story short, I left Christianity when I learned that not quite everything the Church's leaders had taught me, things they had claimed had God's stamp of approval that I absolutely positively had to believe if I wanted to be sure God approved of me too, actually had "biblical" support if I checked it all out for myself.
Hence, when Chatton uses the phrase 'God knows a' in the above solution, it should be understood as 'God cognizes a', meaning that we are only talking about God's grasp of a, not about any kind of approval, disapproval, agreement, disagreement, etc. (Reportatio I, 10 48, d. 39, paragraph 14, p. 363).
The incarnation of the Son of Man, the Messiah, in the form of a human being who was created in the "image of God"—granted theological approval of a sort to the use of images that symbolized Christian truths.
The response satisfies John, who proceeds to perform the baptism, leading to the appearance of God and divine approval of Jesus of Nazareth.
The essence of reverence cannot be conferred on reverent actions by the gods' approval of them; their approval, rather, must follow on their partaking of the essential nature of reverence.
