Sentence examples for relation with god from inspiring English sources

"The huge extensions of land, the isolation and the remote communities, was strongly related to their relation with God," he writes in the foreword to his forthcoming book, Los Menonos.

Institutions have put so many rules on how you have to relate to God, we wanted what is the human experience of your relation with God.

But, like his novel's hero, Mr. Wood said, "I can't quite get out of a relation with God".

Mr. Bickle found Christ, he said, at 15 at a summer camp, when he heard the quarterback Roger Staubach describe his relation with God.

The contemporary Greek theologian, Christos Yannaras, has developed a rich and complex metaphysics of relation, stressing that Christian theology sees the human person as purely abstract if cut off from relation with God and others and the material world.

Malevolent beings demons, fallen angels, ghosts, goblins, evil spirits in nature, hybrid creatures, the daevas of Zoroastrianism, the nārakas (creatures of hell) of Jainism, the oni (attendants of the gods of the underworld) in Japanese religions, and other such beings—hinder man in achieving a proper relation with God, the spiritual realm, or man's life situations.

As time passed and messianic hopes remained unfulfilled, the sense of a permanent suspension of normal relations with God took hold, and prophecy died out.

Judaism (followed later by Christianity and Islām) traces "the Religion" back to Abraham, who had personal and direct relations with God, as was customary in the ancient Middle Eastern milieu.

They accuse Mr. Mashaei of plotting to oust the generation of clerics who have ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and of promoting direct relations with God, instead of through clerical intermediaries.

The remark, caught on video, was a first crack in the now destroyed relationship between the president and leading clergymen, who suspect him of challenging their power by promoting individual relations with God.

He intended at Oneida to establish "right relations with God"; "right relations between the sexes," the kind that would foster harmonious living; "right economic relations," in contrast to the growth of vicious capitalism; and, by achieving these goals, the creation of the true millennium on earth, with the elimination of "disease and death".