Sentence examples for god to exercise from inspiring English sources

One sceptical definition of "dominionism" describes it as "a theocratic view that...heterosexual Christian men are called by God to exercise dominion over secular society by taking control of political and cultural institutions".Other signs of that mentality?

As Dante Alighieri (1265 1321) contended in De Monarchia ("Concerning the Monarchy"), the pope, as the head of the spiritual aspects of society, and the emperor, as the ruler of the temporal areas of concern, were equally ordained by God to exercise their functions in their respective spheres of power and influence for human welfare.

The difficulty is that in order for God to exercise full providence over the world, he needs to know as creator how the decisions and actions of creatures with libertarian freedom will go.

God cannot, however, add even one additional species of reality ad inferius, between prime matter and pure nothingness, not because this exceeds his power but because prime matter is contiguous to nothingness and leaves, so to speak, no room for God to exercise his power (Côté 2009).

God created us with an innate gift of laughter, and what better way to honor God than to exercise what author Anne Lamott calls "carbonated holiness?" Cindy blogs at cindywords.com.

We exist not to glorify God, nor to exercise rationality, nor to bring about any particular conditions of society, but merely because we are assemblages of successful replicators.

"My theory is that if God wanted us to exercise, sweat would smell better," he said.

Accordingly, God is still able to exercise a sort of general providence over the world, guiding it in the direction of his objectives as creator, or at least something approximating them (Rhoda 2010).

Or they take the form of elaborate narcissistic fantasies, like "Bruce Almighty," whose hero gets to exercise his God complex, and "The Truman Show," whose hero is the unwitting star of his own long-running television series.

"God has shown we need to exercise in a way that will not only make us physically fit but also spiritually fit," said Elsie Nicolette, the ministry's director.

It was believed that women by their nature were unfit to exercise power; God, it was argued, had created women to be under obedience to men. Henry VIII firmly believed the wisdom of his age, and famously married six times in his quest to secure a male heir.