The other is my trophy from Fifa, which I want to dedicate to God".
I believed that I had a special calling to dedicate my life to God they way they did.
You may choose to dedicate yourself fully to God, by becoming a priest or a nun.
Another alternative to sacrificing a child was to dedicate it to the service of God., by fulfilling her vow to dedicate her first-born, Samuel, to God's service (1 Samuel 1 27 28) was rewarded by the birth of five other children whom she and her husband could keep for themselves (1 Samuel 2 20 21).
The god to whom it was dedicated, though, was older by far than the Pax Romana.
They could depict the god to whom they were dedicated or the people who donated the statue, or both.
Each Chola temple contained a sanctum closed to all but select priests, within which dwelt the primary, emblematic but nonfigurative image of the god to whom the temple was dedicated -- usually either Shiva or Vishnu, foremost among the numerous Hindu gods, all of whom are representatives of a higher unseen being.
He achieved a more lasting niche as a hymn-writer; according to Hughes, among his hymns with enduring appeal are the Epiphany hymn "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning"; "The Son of God Goes Forth to War", dedicated to the church's saints and martyrs, and the Trinity Sunday hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty".
Toward this end, converts to Ch'ŏndogyo dedicate themselves to God by placing clean water on an altar in a ritual called ch'ŏngsu.
The lesson for me is that God's temple is not confined to grandiose structures but in knowing that all of our human activity is to be dedicated to God even if we are in the slums of the Dominican Republic, at the Wal-Mart or in our routine motions of life.
