"In the name of God and this suffering population, whose cries reach to the heavens more tumultuous each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you, in the name of God, cease the repression," he said in his final sermon.
If so, then are you also willing to say that without these beliefs, God ceases to exist?
Though it was apparent how much she wanted me to embrace her faith, my mother was single handedly responsible for bringing me to understand how similar her and her husband's religion was, and the differences only matter when God ceases to exist.
"God has ceased to be British, and Providence no longer smiles," she wrote, undeniably, though to someone of my generation and background it also seemed that she underestimated the strength of an identity that had taken nearly three centuries to accumulate: Coronation Street as well the British Museum, Penguin Books, free orange juice, the Queen Mary, Big Ben, the Beano as well as the Somme.
4 As they heard this welcome and altogether unexpected good news, the captive women hailed Alexander as a god and ceased from their wailing.
Although he also declared that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, as an aside he argued that only nations that turned away from the Judeo-Christian god have ceased to exist.
Try to praise God without ceasing and Glorify God.
One of the greatest historical novels ever, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, owed its inspiration to a line she came across in Flaubert's correspondence: "Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone".
On Friday morning, with a 72-hour ceasefire making headlines, she posted a picture of the two symbol-laden men holding hands and, using the Arabic word for "God willing" and the Hebrew phrase that means "Thank God," wrote, "Cease Fire !
The Samkhya system did not involve belief in the existence of God, without ceasing to be astika, and Yoga (a mental-psychological-physical meditation system) made room for God not on theoretical grounds but only on practical considerations.
