Sentence examples for heaven calling from inspiring English sources

He bought the cottage five years ago after reluctantly going with a friend who he said was talking some nonsense about an island off Rye. "I was amazed to find this," said Mr. Tartaglione, who wouldn't reveal what he paid for his little slice of heaven, calling it irrelevant.

He returned to Christina Taylor Green three times, and ended with an image of her, jumping puddles in heaven, calling upon us to do right for her and for the children of our country.

Thus, release is not merely a shedding of the bonds of transmigration but a positive quest for the contemplation of God, who is pictured as enthroned in his heaven, called Vaikuntha, with his consort and attendants.

This is one of two events described in the gospels where a voice from Heaven calls Jesus "Son", the other being the Transfiguration.

In another transformation that "mirrored the process of political centralization" in Nurhaci's state, the traditional Jurchen belief in multiple heavens was replaced by one Heaven called "Abka ama" or "Abka han".

Despite this promise, and against protest and revolts from the nobility, Wang Mang claimed on 10 January that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the Han dynasty and the beginning of his own: the Xin dynasty (9 23 AD).

"Is it a sign from the heavens calling upon our nation to turn from its sins and to Christ or suffer the consequences?

It's only when the heavens call him he will surrender".

In chapter 24 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells Gangleri (described as king Gylfi in disguise) that Freyja is "the most glorious of the ásynjur", that Freyja has a dwelling in the heavens called Fólkvangr, and that "whenever she rides to battle she gets half of the slain, and the other half Odin, as it says here: [the stanza above from Grímnismál is then quoted]".

He regards the store as a shrine — "rock-and-roll heaven," he calls it.

He regards the store as a shrine—"rock-and-roll heaven," he calls it.