Sentence examples for god to run from inspiring English sources

Political power, they argue, should rest with the people: the clerics should not believe that they have a mission from God to run people's affairs.

Without a God to "run the universe," there likewise would seem no need for a soul to be at the ground of our own experience.

But there was a time when Scott Van Slyke lost this relaxed approach, when he stood in the outfield, looking up at the sky, asking God to run him into a wall, get him sick, get him released — something, anything, to get him out of baseball.

During his campaign, he told the New York Times that he had been "called by God" to run against Hutchinson, whose family values bona fides were called into question after the then senator divorced his wife of 29 years and married a former staffer 14 years his junior.

I'm intimately familiar with the abusive, condescending, fear-based Christianity that uses the name of god to run from God. Between going to church, prayer meetings, bible studies and baptisms, I was being sexually abused by the very men who should have protected me.

Reporters were curious how someone who was told directly by God himself to run could wind-up not only without the nomination, but dropping out well before the convention in Cleveland this summer.

But "God told me" to run, she says.

I believe God wants me to run for president.' ".

And I realized, Oh, my God, I have to run out and get this Emily Post book.

"When I hit the ball I say, 'Oh, my God, I have to run now,' " Reyes said.

Walker, a born-again Christian and the son of a Baptist minister, has been known to say that God called him to run for office.