Sentence examples for looking for god from inspiring English sources

"There were times when I did what I did because I was looking for God.

No wonder Barny goes looking for God, even if all she finds is a muscular tease with a flattened nose.

He liked to recall Clarence Darrow's accusing a courtroom opponent of looking for God "too far away".

I have never experienced anything remotely resembling a flash of illumination; I am not among the many who visit India looking for God.

We would prefer to think of him as some kind of Bodhisattva wannabe, looking for God in all the wrong places.

"The industry joke is that everybody is looking for God on a good day," said Patrick F. Bassett, president of the National Association of Independent Schools.

Muslims, she tells us, "have looked for God in history"; their "chief duty was to create a just community".

— Tom Riner looks for God everywhere, and in places he does not find him, he tries to put him there.

Natasha, characteristically, hangs out of the carriage, exclaiming, "Look, for God's sake, it's Bezukhov!" Pierre is eventually captured by the French, held for more than a month, and nearly executed.

Being asked so often to look for God's presence made me want to be more aware of it, an experience not unlike gathering for worship on a Sunday morning, when the liturgy of the church makes me aware of things seen and unseen, attentive to the known and unknown.

It was our week of penitence and prayer in which we would make our confessions, visit Saint Anne's shrine, and look for God in the emerging springtime, that, when it came, was hardly a spring at all; nothing so vibrant and effusive.