Our guide related the Israeli version of Jaffa's history: the prophet Jonah vainly fled God from here; the ancient port was taken by the Pharaohs, the Romans, the Hebrews, the Byzantines, the Ottomans, Napoleon, the British, and then finally, in May 1948, by the Israelis.
The moment success leads you to say, "I'll take it from here, God," God's reply will be, "Be my guest".
Kelvin Moon Loh sings "God Draws Straight" from "Here Lies Love," a musical about the life of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.
Where things go from here, God, or the roulette wheel of history, only knows.
I said: 'Oh my God, it's downhill from here.' He used to race the wheelchair around.
"From here, God willing, the fate of this nation will change," Sharif said, speaking to followers in his home province of Punjab.
According to inside sources, the three-hour Thin Rogue Line does not consist of any actual footage of Palin, relying instead on a series of shots of caribou, glaciers, and migrating salmon, punctuated by the voice-overs "Can you see Russia from here, God?" and "You betcha!" intoned by Gregorian monks.
Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,' and 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.'".
In journalism like Eliza Griswold's "Tenth Parallel," where Christians and Muslims encounter each other in acts of geopolitical soul-to-soul; in "House of Prayer No. 2," a memoir in which Mark Richard, going over the trail of a bizarre life, sees signs from God here, there and everywhere.
My father is buried a few blocks from here, for God's sake.
When I sell this work and it goes away from here -- my God, it's so terrible.
