Opinion: Kanye wrestles with God, not Trump Kanye West's cultural productions have occupied a religious space with God for almost 15 years, L. Benjamin Rolsky writes.
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Today's reason to live Old 97s – Good With God
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So I ended up making a deal with God: This was okay to do, as long as it didn't interfere with my relationship with my wife, Cathy, and my family, and with God.
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There, her relationship with God is put to the test.
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Flooding the ocean with god knows how much radioactive material?
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He's friends with God Shammgod and extremely good at basketball.
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They're metaphysical, not Christian, but concern your relationship with God.
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Walk closely with God, and be faithful to His word.
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It's about connecting with God, it's about connecting with nature.
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He talks about eternal love as only possible with God.
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Fasting left me less in touch with God than ever.
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Evangelicals emphasized a "personal relationship" with God through Jesus Christ.
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I've argued with god, 'Your plans are better than mine?
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"It means, 'With God, all things are possible,' " Mansaray said.
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It no longer satisfied my longing for union with God.
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With God on our side, it will all work out.
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Why else does my compromise with God come so easy?
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And she said she had fights with God over that.
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Power of Now Conversations with God 1, 2, 3 Home with God Anuk Ausar "Metu Neter" Jose Baez rose to fame defending Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of murdering her toddler daughter in 2011.
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Congress marks milestone with 'God Bless America' on Capitol steps. pic.twitter.
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And a candidate's relationship with God has nothing to do with.
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My rights, my wrongs are right till I'm right with God.
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I stayed in my marriage BC of my COVENANT WITH GOD.
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Preorder the PlayStation 4 Pro with God of War for $400.
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Confession brings us into an entirely new, deeper harmony with God.
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AA can be intertwined with God, but I am not religious.
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Ozymandias, with God sending each one to something akin to hell.
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Something made me realize I needed a personal relationship with God.
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We live here because we have a close relationship with God.
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But Job gets angry with God and expresses doubt and sorrow.
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"She is with God," he said at one point during the service.
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You can't put anything up that has anything to do with God .
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Jacob is in heaven with God now and everyone who loves him.
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"They're with God, so that's all I can ask for," she said.
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I know he will be with my grandparents and safe with God.
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Fiona has made other decisions, not least in her relationship with God.
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"I don't walk alone; I walk with God," an older woman says.
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Samson pleaded with God to grant him strength to destroy his captors.
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But for her, the church is about restoring people's relationship with God.
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For many religious leaders, "better" meant a more sharply defined relationship with God.
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In 2013, Helt, who attends a Methodist church, made a deal with God.
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He loses his wife and his son because of this obsession with God.
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"I entrusted them in God's hands, now they are with God," she said.
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" "Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church.
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She was a woman that was always with God, that's how she lived.
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The Bible is filled with proclamations about the importance of conversing with God.
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"You can't hold hands with God when you are masturbating," said the other.
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I'll focus on my spiritual life and build a better relationship with God.
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She has had, and especially has now, a very close relationship with God.
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What helped Boyce turn the corner, he said, was a conversation with God.
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They have no soul, and they certainly don't have a relationship with God.
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I was still bitter and angry with God, but those feelings were dissipating.
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As a Muslim, my religion and my relationship with God are very important.
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I know that he is with God and his parents now in heaven.
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I definitely had a conversation with God before I even got to Hollywood.
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Mine is rooted in my relationship with God and love for my family.
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He identified that all religions were fundamentally in pursuit of oneness with God.
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It broke our relationship with God, with each other and with the natural world.
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In our prayers, we can, without sinning, discuss with God about His time table.
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He pleads with God and cites Deuteronomy as proof that black Americans are cursed.
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It's such a nice time to disconnect from the world and reconnect with God.
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She believes we should plead with God in times of trouble (Psalm 50:15).
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Starting with "God Bless America" and "This Land is Your Land" was a masterstroke.
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"Let us go with God, with Bolivar, with our commander Hugo Chavez," Jaua said.
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That show has found plenty of comic material in religion, including with God himself.
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How can I make things right with myself, with God and with my relationships?
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" Corsi concludes with his own version of a serenity prayer: "I am with God.
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During trying moments of my life, I go there to be alone with God.
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At this point, an individual has already made his peace with God, or hasn't.
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I have my relationship with God and myself and that's what matters to me.
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Bernstein, who had complicated feelings about religion, conceived "Kaddish" as an argument with God.
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We pray to the living God, so praying is direct communication with God himself.
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My father, like Jairus, pleaded with God to save the life of his daughter.
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But with God on her side, she will fight to rebuild it, she says.
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"Because Catholic priests are celibate, they're in a loving relationship with God," Sorrentino explained.
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I'd been taught that my relationship with God would decay if I wasn't careful.
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Staying on an "as if" basis with "God," for short, hugely improves my life.
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I think about how, after the surgery, I will hold a meeting with god.
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"I'm a Christian and have always had my own personal relationship with God," she says.
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And then there was "The Knowing," no less than making a direct connection with God.
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They had been taught to bow in submission as a way to connect with God.
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Córdoba asked Alvarenga to visit his mother and said that he was now with God.
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I looked up "Wrestling with God" yesterday and I found my own image on there.
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All five of the new saints were attributed with interceding with God to perform miracles.
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We love and miss them dearly but take comfort knowing they are with God now.
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Would they convey the heartbreak and regret of not making their final peace with God?
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When Moses was asked to lead the Israelites out of Egypt he argued with God.
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"If I have problems with God, why should I blame the Sabbath?" he once said.
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Sex is as much about the participants' relationship with God, as it is each other.
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I don't think I'd have this career if it wasn't for my relationship with God.
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After the fathers of her two children left her, Brenda made a pact with God.
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He recommends a private relationship with God over and against more "public displays" of piety.
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But through it all Fantasia found solace in both her relationship with God and her music.
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Instead, he proposed that ethical and religious choices be determined through an internal conversation with God.
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This was like we licensed the IP, sold option and said, you guys go with God.
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He grew up in an observant Jewish household and in his youth regularly conversed with God.
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Once again, the guidance is on how to conduct your relationship with others and with God.
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Through Christ's death sinners who have done nothing to deserve salvation are made right with God.
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By emptying the mind and filling it with prayer, Sufis seek to become one with God.
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For me, privately and personally, I often have quiet communication with God in my airplane seat.
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She finds her connection with God, she said, on her own time, in her own way.
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The girl who once had longed to live with God had grown into a woman disillusioned.
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The very act of disagreeing with the Islamic State is essentially equivalent to disagreeing with God.
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"I don't have any bad problems with God, but I have problems with religion," he says.
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The ritual helps her keep going, yet "I fight with God an awful lot," she confessed.
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What separates her from older generations is her Catholicism has almost nothing to do with God.
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According to St. Paul, Jesus did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped.
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"A Contract With God" was a departure, not just for Eisner but for comics in general.
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Talking with God during the national anthem seems to be a perfectly American thing to do.
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Some patients died alone and angry—angry with people who had wronged them, angry with God.
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Having a relationship with God through Jesus Christ and following His teachings should be their highest priority.
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This kind of guidance and wisdom does not come without setting apart time to be with God.
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" On Instagram, he added that he is, "Still taking forward steps and forever working with God. Brb.
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She says she returns to her home only briefly, to be by herself and reflect with God.
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"Thank God my father is well, he is strong and with God, with his family," she said.
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Some prospective priests don't want to choose between having a life with God and having a family.
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"We have the right to live our lives, with God or without, as we choose," she said.
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Thinking I was dying, I made peace with God on the floor of my one room cabin.
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Dolssa is an 18-year-old girl who has a Song of Songs-like relationship with God.
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" He continued: "They are merely the means to commune with God; and not the end in themselves.
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I definitely have a relationship with God, and I pray every day, let alone before every show.
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In fact, there are multiple times where she believes to be speaking to or interacting with God.
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We'd also pray in tongues—a language that is unique to you and your communication with God.
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I will know it because I'm that in tune with myself and that in tune with God.
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The episode's most compelling moments juxtapose Gabriel's relationship with God against Negan's Svengali spell over the Saviors.
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It is the title given to Abraham in the Quran because of his close relationship with God.
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"She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God,' " Lewis writes.
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The message ended with "God almighty preserve him (Baghdadi)", suggesting the poster still believed Baghdadi was alive.
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Tim Tebow is an awesome dude ... he prays for everyone, but sometimes he talks sports with God.
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He said he was looking for a person with a "good heart" and had a relationship with God.
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McNamara said Thursday that the Word of Life Christian Church's congregants believe Tiffanie Irwin communicates directly with God.
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" A pastor of 24 years, he believes Donham's comments may be a way to "make peace with God.
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I also know that Billy is with God now — and probably kicking some ass up there as well.
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"[It's about] the 'misguidance of the mind' and the mystical state of full union with God," ACARDY explains.
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Battered yellow taxis with "God will provide" and "Allah is one" painted on their bumpers crawl through Conakry.
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It was going to head to Vanessa [Ives, played by Eva Green] sacrificing herself and reuniting with God.
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After consultation, presumably with God, but particularly with his astronomer, Christopher Clavius, the pope adopted Clavius' clever solution.
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This stream grew larger; the concern for right relation with God joined with love of the physical world.
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"When she got connected with God, she changed a lot of people's lives," he said, according to KVVU.
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His plan was to fall back in love with his family and with God at the same time.
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The forbidden fruit at the root of humanity's falling out with God is often illustrated as an apple.
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I spent a while infecting my laptop with God-knows-what from various Napster-esque video streaming sites.
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You communicate with God yourself, and if it's the time you pray, where you are is your mosque.
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To keep from doing so, you pray, arguing with God that letting him die is best for him.
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And I have a paragraph about my relationship with God, and how that changed my relationship with people.
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For me, it comes out of a religious conviction and religious desire to be in contact with God.
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Uniformed soldiers handed out posters of General Suleimani and red headbands with "God is Great" written in Arabic.
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Finally, your dreams of being endlessly sniped by a 14-year-old with god-like reflexes will come true.
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Both devout "born-again Christians," Conners said his wife said "she wanted to be with God" the application said.
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Jackson, the man of no faith, tries to make a bargain with God while he waits at her bedside.
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It seemed a long time since all that crazy bargaining with God and her misery about her own secret.
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A miracle suggests that the person lives in heaven now, and therefore can intercede with God on someone's behalf.
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" Adding: "The road to recovery remains long, but with God and you, we are assured to make it through.
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"Have You Ever Been Alone With God," it asks in January, and then "Will You Examine Yourself" in July.
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" A month before, in a more meteorological meditation, it notices: "In the Bible, clouds are always associated with God.
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Holy Anorexia is about these girls who became obsessed with God, and with the image of the Holy Ghost.
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These quandaries included questioning the existence of a higher power, feeling angry with god, and feeling abandoned by god.
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I try to emphasize the struggles and the joys of my relationship with God as I go through life.
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Prayer for my community and myself is time to be in relationship with God in an intimate, focused way.
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As he floated in the dark water, he had what he describes as his first real conversation with God.
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As an artist, though, the Eisner of "A Contract with God" was a master arriving at his mature style.
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Pope Francis approved the beatification in July with a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to Sheen's intercession with God.
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"How is a life with God still possible in a time in which there is an Auschwitz?" he asked.
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I argued with God for a while, and felt a heavy, raging sensation in my chest, right over my heart.
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" Jackson feels he's right with God now and everything is back on track -- saying, "My life is great, 4 kids.
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I don't know where my beliefs are today with God, but I only went to church to please my mother.
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" To either "elect those who are going to affirm the covenant we have with God or those who reject it.
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" Bonner says she hit her lowest point after she went blind and remembers having "a very angry conversation with God.
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Dean talked Amara into mending the fences with God and the two had a friendly reunion that left Amara thankful.
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They want "to live simply, to build their own things and to commune with God," said the father, Gedalia Meyer.
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If the prayer was granted, it proves that the candidate was able to communicate with God to conjure the miracle.
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"César González…vaya con dios, hermano [go with god, brother]," Black captioned a photo taken of Barrón during the filmmaking.
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Medieval authors like Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross would often frame their encounters with God as sexual ones.
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Trump on God "I have a very good relationship with god, a great relationship with evangelical (Christian voters)," he said.
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In other words, a saint is someone who lived with "heroic virtue" and is definitely, absolutely with God in death.
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It brought him up against the absurdity of bargaining with God, jockeying for his favor—indeed, paying for his favor.
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But I'm Italian, so I can't acknowledge that I ate well unless I'm clutching my intestines and bargaining with God.
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And although killing off family members is fine with God, practicing witchcraft and conjuring up spirits is still totally not.
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The first of his 30 books was "Peace With God," published in 1953; his last was "Nearing Home," in 2011.
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Sometimes reading is like medicine, other times it is a confrontation with God — I don't do it much in public.
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They shared journeys from fear to self-discovery that affected their relationships with their children, with spouses, and with God.
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Abraham is communing with God in his tent that is open so that he can remain connected to the world.
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Within Islam itself, Sufism is a centuries-old current that sees religious practice as a means to oneness with God.
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In a 2014 episode of Inside Amy Schumer, Amy tries to negotiate with God to protect her from getting herpes.
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A common feature of sleep paralysis is a heavy feeling in the chest, like I had as I argued with God.
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If I can't sit through a movie with God or Jesus sitting by me, then we have no business showing it.
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With God willing, the exchange rate will stabilize in the coming period, so it will improve and everything will be fine.
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Both abhorred idolatry and intercession, and both relied on their books, the Bible and the Quran, for direct contact with God.
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I think of it as an interactive, personal relationship with God where we know that he's always present, that's he's protective.
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"The road to recovery remains long, but with God and you, we are assured to make it through," the family said.
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Protestants wanted worshippers to have a personal relationship with God and to read the Bible in the vernacular, rather than Latin.
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If I can't sit through a movie with God or Jesus sitting by me then we have no business showing it.
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"They're mad because they have been brought up with that teaching that you have made a covenant with God," she said.
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These are people in relationships, with each other and with God, and some of them are deeply devoted to their work.
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After a time, perhaps considerable time, you would sit with God as long-married couples might sit: silent, but holding hands.
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Sufis call this practice zikr and see it as a way of connecting with God and elevating themselves through communal meditation.
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A woman with God knew what kind of mental Ferris wheel spinning around in her head, and I wasn't going anywhere.
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" Trump and God Trump said he is doing so well with evangelicals because he has a "very great relationship with God.
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They will tell of her journey there and back, and to Hell and Heaven, too, and of her interview with God.
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It's a foretaste of what we're going to experience with God around the throne in the new heavens and new earth.
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I was not hedging my bets with God; I was covering the fire at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Tex.
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He was wearing a cutoff T-shirt with "God Bless America" emblazoned on one side, a bald eagle on the other.
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"I do have a relationship with God, but it took me a long time to get there," she told the newspaper.
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That was my first inkling that maybe this is okay with God, that I'm not going to be condemned to hell.
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But it is quite clear that there is a separation, some to eternal life with God and some not so much.
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They formed a personal bond with pastors, who were usually compatriots, and were urged to feel a personal relationship with God.
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God is spirit, and all the great masters emphasize instead that we need to learn spiritual disciplines to commune with God.
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My other issue with God of War is that it takes at least a couple of hours before it gets good.
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But I want to encourage people to enjoy every moment and walk every moment with God because he knows what it's about.
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When I'm with Gregory and she's with... god, who knows, some kind of four-foot-eleven Dungeon Master with a patchy beard?
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" She continues, "But the miscarriages made me get real with God and say, 'Okay, I'm kind of giving up a little bit.
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It's a parable of our relationship with God and how we run away from him, but he still loves us so much.
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In the process, I formed a very real, albeit roughly made, relationship with God, and a deep love for the Christian faith.
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"My objective was to win favor (with God)," said Umm Ahmed, only her eyes showing in a gap in her black veil.
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So was it Lindsey Graham said if you have a problem with the capital being in Jerusalem, take it up with God?
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She believed she could, indeed must, take on the cross herself and find her way to union with God through these labors.
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"It sounds ridiculous but, like, I kind of made a pact with God," Lovato said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning .
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ET: The video is back, ladies and gentlemen, though this time dubbed over with "God Bless the U.S.A."Classic Trump, folks.[CNBC]
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"Time is something that cannot be bought, it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply," Sager remarked.
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Their film of choice -- "The Shack" -- about a man who loses his daughter and then gets an invitation to meet with God.
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In the darkness, I made a pact with God that if Gillian got better, I'd never again lose sight of my priorities.
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The thing hasn't launched yet—maybe it'll be popular with God-knows-which Fox demographic I might be out of touch with.
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Sufis have an unorthodox approach that focuses more on esoteric aspects of religious life, and strive for direct, personal experiences with God.
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There's so much to talk about with God of War, but we wanted to give everyone a chance to play the game.
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By this account, if we evolve our computational power enough, we will become one with God—the ultimate yearning of all religions.
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"You can tell me 'you're sorry,' you can give me your condolences, but you still have to work this out with God."
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L. Benjamin Rolsky: Kanye wrestles with God, not Trump Joey Jackson: She allegedly told her boyfriend to kill himself and he did?
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As in: Let that ego go, divorce yourself from your earthly body, seek oneness with God and radiate kindness, humility and compassion.
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I may miss a few votes during this period, but with God&aposs grace I will be back on the frontlines soon.
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My parents gave me, when I was a young child, the capacity, the hunger, the chance to be in love with God.
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Sufism is "a spiritual tendency within Islam that prioritizes the inward aspects of religion and one's personal relationship with God," Hamid said.
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Sufis believe these mystics help them have a relationship with God, which is part of the reason they honor them in death.
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Instead, she was surprised to find it replete with letters that Theresa had written to friends, detailing the relationship she had with God.
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Five years ago it was like Simon had been soaking up the Dixie Hummingbirds for so long he'd made his covenant with God.
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Why we cross our fingers while telling a lie has even murkier origins, but many believe this has to do with God, too.
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The reward is not to be reborn as royalty — it's to never be reborn again so that your soul finally rests with God.
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Grande opened her performance with "God Is a Woman" before going into "Bad Idea," the single off her latest album thank u, next.
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During this time in my life, it turned to me begging and pleading with God to erase my doubt, to rebuild my faith.
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But then Alessandro had a surprise: He knew his mom would become pregnant after a conversation, he said, that he'd had with God.
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In the speaker's mind, national and religious characteristics may be interchangeable, and not really have much to do with God, metaphysics or morals.
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This woman not only demonstrated that she was in closer communication with God than Patrick, but that his sermon was boring to boot.
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Followers of Sufism undertake distinct ritual practices, such as reciting hymns and poetry, with the aim of reaching a direct encounter with God.
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LHM has helped heal the brokenness in my life, which in turn has helped me grow my relationship with God and my husband.
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"If I can't sit through a movie with God or Jesus sitting by me then we have no business showing it," they explained.
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It would only be human if, for those few minutes, a good number aboard the flight started to make their peace with God.
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Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has declared that he has a "great relationship with God," and Christianity is a centerpiece of the pitch Sens.
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They in turn reflect the tensions of an ever more fissiparous nation, including over another of his bugbears: government's proper relationship with God.
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"And the only way that he could really actually achieve that out here is through actually meeting with God himself," Mr. Hepburn said.
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Six months in the hospital waiting for a donor were excruciating, and she started having conversations with God as she prepared to die.
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And, in modern times, Jews are urged to think of themselves "standing again at Sinai," renewing their covenant with God and each other.
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On Sunday afternoon, a few hours before the NCAA tournament bracket was announced, Providence College guard Kris Dunn worked out with God Shammgod.
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It may seem counterintuitive, if not downright implausible, that voting Democrat or Republican could change something as personal as our relationship with God.
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Smith, who died in 1986, is most closely identified with "God Bless America," but she recorded numerous other songs over her long career.
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Sufism, known as tasawwuf in the Arabic-speaking world, is a form of Islamic mysticism that emphasizes introspection and spiritual closeness with God.
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Then I developed my own relationship to church and my own relationship with God, separate from being raised that way by my parents.
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In his photos, parenting scenes often symbolize a relationship with God, such as this photo visualizing "the father's sacrificial love for his child."
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At the Embers, on the East Side of Manhattan, she once shared the bill with Tatum, which she likened to playing with God.
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Yancy: An essential part of Judaism is that Jews have a covenant with God — an agreement or commitment between God and his people.
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Yancy: An essential part of Judaism is that Jews have a covenant with God — an agreement or commitment between God and his people.
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Wanting his beloved wife to rest in peace with God as soon as possible, Shmuel won't rest well until she can fully decompose.
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One of Trump's Republican rivals, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, speaking in Columbia, South Carolina, said he would not question anyone's relationship with God.
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The show gives our family a platform to share our story of loss and love to inspire others that with God, nothing is impossible.
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"This notion of Amazon as some kind of all-knowing, all-seeing entity with God-like is becoming a very tired narrative," he said.
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She draws parallels between the events within biblical Hagar's narrative and historical experiences of African-American women, including enslavement, surrogacy, and encounters with God.
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That reputation goes as far back as the Clover Studios (Capcom's studio where many of the Platinum developers come from) days with God Hand.
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Although the IRS — like all of this president's agencies — may appear like the giant Goliath, with God on his side, David struck him down.
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The flashback lends more weight to the idea that Lenny can actually speak with God, and sometimes gets God to do what he asks.
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In many ways, Ramadan is the great coming-of-age moment in Islam, one that traces the genesis of a Muslim's relationship with God.
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The Catholicism of his youth, with its formality and rituals, had not given him the intimacy with God that he now found himself craving.
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"The Stockyards' owners imported Billy Sunday to divert their underpaid hunkies from going on strike by shouting them dizzy with God," he tells us.
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This phenomenon was speaking in tongues, a secret language with God where one could speak directly to him though the repetition of guttural noises.
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Family and romantic partner ranked highest, at 23 percent and 48 percent, with God or a higher power coming up next at 44 percent.
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She takes Gary along with her, who performs the same function during her chat with God as he does when she's schmoozing with diplomats.
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If someone asked you to imagine a cannabis edible, you might think of a big, formidible brownie filled with god knows how much THC.
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Not just being a bit nicer or writing checks to charity; no, he is challenging us to intimacy with one another, and with God.
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I remembered her at her bat mitzvah telling everyone she disagreed with God, and I thought of my parents, now gone, laughing at that.
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It is a time to ask forgiveness and to make sure that one is right with one's fellow humans, as well as with God.
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During a Koran study session, Safri encourages his congregation to ask candid questions about their sexuality and how it affects their relationship with God.
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Since I couldn't control Jack's outcome by waving a magic wand or wielding surgical tools, I fixated on minutiae and silently bargained with God.
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Aided by Kat Westergaard's warm, restrained cinematography, she takes the viewer close to an understanding of Cathleen's evolving sense of her relationship with God.
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Mr. Quraishi said he had no quarrel with "God Bless America," but believed that Smith's version was tainted by her association with racist lyrics.
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The Super Bowl LI Halftime Show, 2017 Beginning with "God Bless America," Gaga's nearly 14-minute-long set filled Houston's NRG stadium with pure energy.
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" At the end, Streep made a passionate call for religious liberty — the right, as she said, " to live our lives with God or without Her.
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We have the eternal good news that "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:1).
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He was condemning me to depend on such serious treatment with God knows what consequences, and God only knows from what hidden motivations or reasons.
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"Kristan told her teammates that she was waiting until she was married because of her personal relationship with God," the complaint states, according to NBC.
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Ramadan is a month-long holiday when Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sunset, and really focus on deepening our connection with God.
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Tangential to Birdie's story, one of the nuns is asked persistent questions by a parishioner who's baffled by her personal failure at conversing with God.
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The aim is to use new technology to "bring people into a relationship with God", says Adrian Harris, head of digital matters at the church.
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For others, it's an act of spirituality — a way to connect with yourself in your most natural form, with God, Mother Nature, and the universe.
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Saints act as role models and they're also believed to communicate with God on someone's behalf when a request for help is made in prayer.
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He raps about his relationship with God, about the grit of Chicago's South Side violence, and the bores of bling and materialism (his clique: Savemoney).
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I was very upset in my teen years, for a very long time, with God, mainly because of what church individuals had done to me.
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Really getting into the Christmas spirit, Jimmy Kimmel just aired a skit with "God & Satan" arguing and eventually deciding that I should go to Hell.
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"Before my injury, I wasn't inclined to be a reader, or obsessed with God and the meaning of life," he told The Times in 1993.
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My dad was such a believer, so I couldn't come to terms with how someone with such a deep relationship with God could be gone.
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In person, Harris was a thoughtful conversationalist and an attentive listener who seemed more at ease talking about her relationship with God than about sex.
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As he studied Christianity, he was drawn to the mystics and came to believe that the Scriptures call people into a personal relationship with God.
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The point is that the loss of his physical presence through his death, resurrection and ascension would lead to an even deeper communion with God.
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Bieber, who has been open about how his relationship with God has helped transform his life, moved those present after he got on the mic.
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I came into this world with God And when I finally looked inside, I found it, Just as close as my breath is to me.
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In my first book, The World Is Awake, my spirituality and relationship with God that my parents introduced me to as a child was important.
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It's also given me more freedom in my relationship with God; more time to pray and to simply receive my daily needs from divine providence.
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Professor Smith received the drug, which was legal at the time, and reported that he was certain he had had a personal experience with God.
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Adventists have a "weekly date with God," in which they are to attend church, do no work, and dedicate the day to rest and rejuvenation.
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Bart's Books, where shelves lining the exterior of the store have titles like "Conversations with God" and "Where Do Bastards Go to Die," was closed.
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The first is peace with God, which each of us needs because our sins have separated us from him and we deserve his wrath and judgment.
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She got breast cancer, and the show ultimately went on its way with a series finale where Murphy, under the knife, hallucinates an interview with God.
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"I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God," she was quoted as saying.
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"Y'all know I've been going through things and trying to get right with God and stop swearing but I need to speak on something," she wrote.
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The writer with whom he felt the greatest affinity, he once said, was John Donne, with his dramatizations of the soul in virtual combat with God.
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Finding himself beset by impulses to cruelty and sexual domination, he ascribed them to Nature, which, after the eighteenth-century French fashion, he equated with God.
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READ: Donald Trump: 'I have a great relationship with God' Trump said he doesn't ask for forgiveness because he doesn't do a lot of bad things.
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David Tarloff was a schizophrenic man from Queens who suffered from delusions about communicating with God and had been committed to a mental hospital numerous times.
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Unlike some people, Jewish and non-Jewish, who take great comfort in communicating with God, I am not confident that God even listens to our prayers.
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It somehow segues into a description of the role of Roman Catholicism in Mr. Birbiglia's childhood as "this weird three-way with God" and his mom.
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The practice is rooted in Genesis, when God instructs Abraham to circumcise himself and all of his descendants as a sign of their contract with God.
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In one excruciating sequence, a disturbed friend answers his pleas for something to drink by pouring Cola in a trash can filled with God knows what.
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If you're a true believer and so are your family members, then death is is the ultimate goal because it means you get to be with God.
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"This notion of Amazon as some kind of all-knowing, all-seeing entity with God-like is becoming a very tired narrative," the "Mad Money " host said.
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It may sound like a lot of additional work, but the regularity of this practice makes worshipping and communing with God simply a fixture of everyday life.
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As a result, many prisons have adapted to help inmates on their journeys with God, providing prayer rooms, more access to chaplains, and facilitating special dietary requirements.
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At another level, it seeks fresh ways to convey transcendent truths—combining "creative man with God the creator", in the words of Pawel Rojek, a conservative critic.
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When the actress Jacqueline Susann was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1962, she made a deal with God: She would settle for 10 more years of life. . .
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We get it, you can't exactly cross someone who has communed with God on behalf of you and your S.O., especially if that someone is Kris Jenner.
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The Christian church, inspired by Christ's act of reconciling us with God, is focused on sharing this good news with others, thus building God's community on earth.
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Just as Moses couldn't enter the promised land because he had broken faith with God, much of the current House leadership has broken faith with its voters.
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It is a month in which Muslims focus on strengthening their relationship with God through acts of worship, including extra prayers, increased charity, and reading the Quran.
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Hitbodedut (Jewish meditation; a one-on-one chat with god), or taking a moment to light candles Friday night and set intention for the next 25 hours.
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"I know it's not perfect, with God and everything," Philip whispers to Elizabeth, who simply smiles back at him with a look of utter love and tenderness.
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"If you're honest and if you're passionate, most folks aren't going to freak over the fact that your center comes from a relationship with God," he says.
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Being in the fields, "spending time with God," helped Ed Currie stay clean and sober, and he gets emotional thinking about how much his life has changed.
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"I am crying, but these are tears of joy," Youssef says, explaining that his children are now with God, and that is better than being in Syria.
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Whether or not your beliefs have anything to do with God, if they're totalizing enough, they shape how you live and what you'll sacrifice your life for.
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The album's first single—which is hand-on-heart with God-as-my-witness called "Fuh You"—suggests that the experience has brought out Macca's hornier side.
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But for the Amazonian tribes that have used ayahuasca for 5,000 years to communicate with God on matters ranging from politics to medicine, the trend is dangerous.
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"When you've started with God you might as well stay with him," he said, explaining why he went on to look at Christianity, paganism, Buddhism and more.
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The pope demonstrates that right relationship with God and others requires admitting fault even, and especially, toward those we have been trained to view as less moral.
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Nothing could be as solemn as the coronation, in which the monarch is anointed with oil and is believed to be brought into direct contact with God.
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When he looked up, he informed the soldiers and the few deputies in attendance that he had been "speaking with God," who lucky for them urged patience.
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I believe in my own thesis enough to assume that we'll muddle through, in the end, with (God willing) not too much damage, not too many deaths.
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Many spend their time poring over the Torah, including the Talmud and its commentaries, seeking a spiritual experience that gives them a more intimate relationship with God.
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If ending speeches with "God bless America" is an example of the problems the new godless bloc will tackle, any number of issues threaten us with more harm.
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On a personal note, I have had the pleasure of spending time with God-is at #HereWeAre, #Influence, and #OneTeam and her energy, passion and positivity are infectious.
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It was not a random choice for Ariana Grande to open up her headlining show at Coachella with "God is a woman;" it was a resounding shot fired.
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We were all about that, and I feel like when you have a relationship with God, and I feel like I've had endless, countless, abundant conversations about it.
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" "It's hard to believe," Phillips said, "that the government is forcing me to choose between providing for my family and my employees, and violating my relationship with God.
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Humans need ritual for the same reason that you need to create a connection with absoluteness, which is with God, the universe, whatever you want to call it.
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Khloé Kardashian says that her decision to divorce Lamar Odom is at odds with her personal beliefs – but that her relationship with God has helped her find peace.
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The Church teaches that God performs miracles but that saints who are believed to be with God in heaven intercede on behalf of people who pray to them.
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Vexed and clamorous, Kanye West does not merely speak with God; he goes so far as to claim on his prior album Yeezus that he is a god.
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To some religious groups, wedding night sex is a significant event, because they believe that's the way you "consummate" a marriage, or make the union official with god.
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He had spoken to them directly and that they were trying to advocate for something that they knew was true and right in their personal relationship with God.
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Only the Jewish high priest was allowed to enter the Holy of Holies, where tradition holds he met with God on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
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Of course the saints in Catholic tradition experience a direct relationship with God, and the Protestant traditions, in most instances, greatly value their two sacraments and their clergy.
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"I felt like you see [Lee] with God, like he's so quiet watching all of us, like his flesh died but his soul is watching us," Ling says.
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I believe in caring for my partner — past or present — 'in sickness and in health,' and feel at peace with my relationship with God even after the fact.
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The new cover, released in 2014 by Atheneum and discovered on Instagram recently by Jezebel, features the titular Margaret trying to get in touch with God through text.
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She makes bargains with God, just as she did as a young girl when, in exchange for her poor vision, she asked for a soul mate one day.
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My relationship with God is very important because that keeps me sane and reminds me of what's important, and my family and friends and good people around me.
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Pete Buttigieg had a message for Vice President Mike Pence during a speech on Sunday: If you have a problem with my gayness, take it up with God.
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Following investigations by Church historical and theological commissions, the pope on Wednesday granted Tolton the title "Venerable," meaning that Catholics can pray to him for intercession with God.
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I spent a lot of time in the dunes and the wildernesses of Cape Cod, and at the very end of it it was about being with God.
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He talked with God, he says, and then, instead of continuing to the practice field and football, Jeremy went home in order to take care of his wife.
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"We can't allow anyone to tell us how our relationship with God must be," says Canela, who will sing songs by Katy Perry, Céline Dion and more on Sunday.
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A woman on her own, Circe is forced to choose whether her loyalties lie with god or man, and what she's willing to do to protect those she loves.
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Ruth Negga, as Tulip, projects escalating exasperation and isolation through the series, as Jesse's pointless obsession with God and with his own power steadily, tediously takes over his life.
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That's because I built mine with my own beautifully formed hands, while his was built with the hands of God, and nobody can compete with God, is that correct?
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In a letter from prison sent ahead of Celeste's birthday to his mother, Cindy Watts, Chris claims to be a changed man who has a newfound relationship with God.
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The regime clamped down, accusing the moderate leaders of the opposition, known as the Green Movement, not only of sedition, but of being mohaareb—people who fight with God.
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The text "I'd rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God" would have been on the billboard.
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I was raised to be a faith driven person, but it isn't until you have a real experience with God that you know that you know God is real.
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From having Kylie Jenner's initials tattooed on his hand to his relationship with "god sis" Paris Jackson to his most recent alleged incident, here's everything to know about Miles.
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"I made a deal with God, promising to look after these children if he promised to provide me with the resources to take care of these kids," Mashale said.
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We discussed Orji's road to Insecure, how she feels the show lends itself to black culture, and how her relationship with God led her to where she is today.
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Whether you like it not, America is a culture mired in deathism—the idea that human death is natural, inescapable, and ultimately desirable because it unites one with God.
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And like most of those kinds of deals with God, it lasted about six months or so before I started to feel guilty about keeping this thing from her.
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Eric took this photo from our backyard right after the accident happened where Kobe, his daughter, and other beautiful souls were lifted up to be with God for eternity.
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Hours before that, as he evacuated another man badly wounded in the stomach, Mr. McCloughan turned his thoughts to home and proposed a deal with God, Mr. Trump said.
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Reve was also prosecuted for blasphemy in 1966, because of an essay in which he expressed a wish to have sex with God, who was depicted as a donkey.
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While he certainly argued for the importance of righteousness, Jesus was far less concerned about rules than he was about relationships and reconciliation — with one another and with God.
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For devout Muslims, Ramadan, the lunar month when they fast from dawn to dusk, is a time for self-discipline, reflection, and deepening their relationship with God and others.
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"And most of all, you always have to keep a good connection and faith with God and things will naturally fall into place and go the way they're supposed to."
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It is meant to be a time of spiritual discipline — of deep contemplation of one's relationship with God, extra prayer, increased charity and generosity, and intense study of the Quran.
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At some point between 14.73 and 1517, Martin Luther had a direct encounter with God and felt himself "to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise".
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Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better—it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.
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We sloshed and stomped through frigid, murky water for hours, and stood still in ankle-deep sludge for a good 15 minutes with god-knows-what lurking beneath the surface.
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It pains me to have to explain my faith, my personal observations, my relationship with God because a dark and sinister movement seeks to steal this jewel away from me.
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"They don't associate images with God, and believe that wearing crosses or other symbols to grant power or protection is a sin -- and that's very similar to Islam," he says.
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On Supernatural, where Gamble cut her teeth, the Winchester brothers kinda sorta lost everything on their way to the actual apocalypse with God and the Devil and all that jazz.
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It emerges from a distinctive intellectual tradition that, within a limited sphere, emphasized the claims of individual conscience, a disintermediated relationship with God, and a skeptical view of state power.
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It emerges from a distinctive intellectual tradition that, within a limited sphere, emphasized the claims of individual conscience, a disintermediated relationship with God, and a skeptical view of state power.
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Crossroads, the congregation that helped usher Reynolds toward his conversation with God, has in recent years become a major emblem of the fusion in sensibilities between tech and evangelical Christianity.
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A CONTRACT WITH GOD AND OTHER TENEMENT STORIES (Norton, $25.95), first published in 1978, wasn't the first self-described "graphic novel," but it's the one that made the term stick.
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Ratri, dressed in a purple head scarf and bright red eye-shadow and lipstick, says it is this openness that allows the otherwise shunned waria to "make peace with God".
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El Comandante insists on an audience with God, and after much pleading, the doorman of paradise permits him to go talk to the Supreme Being... but only for five minutes.
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The book, published in the months after Trump's win, again likens America to the ancient nation of Israel — two peoples, Mr. Cahn says, who have a unique relationship with God.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has ordered an over-enthusiastic columnist to be suspended from his job after he equated him with God, Saudi media reported on Sunday.
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"With God we don't have to do the right things or say the right things to somehow 'earn' his healing," Amy wrote in an online diary soon after Joel's first biopsy.
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This is the scene, Green says, that embodies all the wrestling with God he has endured since his son's death, the scene that once provided answers but now leaves only questions.
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Brandon T. Jackson says he was on "thin ice" with God for playing a gay character in "Tropic Thunder" ... but says wearing a dress in "Big Mommas" was worse for him.
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In his heart he would have been quite happy as the pastor of some little church up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he loved to walk and talk with God.
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But it's also a vehicle for the show to dive into what it really wants to talk about, which, for some reason, is Shawn's belief system and personal relationship with God.
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In this camp, much emphasis is placed on the teaching of the apostle Paul that compared the Jews, as partners in the original covenant with God, to an old olive tree.
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The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during their lives that they are now believed to be with God and can intercede with him to perform miracles.
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The platform included a provision saying "that man-made law must be consistent with God-given, natural rights," according to a draft of the platform obtained by the New York Times.
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In the Book of Job, evil is presented as a spiritual test, with Satan gambling with God that a good man couldn't keep faith through the breaking wheel of meaningless suffering.
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We learn about her relationship with a handsome professor—who was forced to resign, amid scandal, soon after she took his controversial religion seminar—and also about her struggle with God.
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The story centers around a group of scientists who wish to make contact with God, and they believe that this could be possible by removing the body of all five senses.
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" Lisa Dudley, at the church with her 8-year-old son, said, "I never had a personal relationship with any of those pastors, but I have a personal relationship with God.
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There was a point in your life where you say you shifted from a kind of personal religious journey to a relationship with God that involved engaging with the outside world.
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Millie watched what was happening to her husband, and she made a secret pact with God that she would be his caretaker—both wife and nurse—no matter what the cost.
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While Isaac's story ended with God sparing him at the last minute, he certainly would suffer "irreparable harm" if he had been executed prior to the reversal of God's initial decision.
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But his real religion is comedy, and at the end of this discussion of his relationship with God, he contrasted the sureness of faith with the questioning nature of a comic.
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That was not the case with another well-known Catholic, who, decades before Chavez, was drawn to the idea of refusing food for a social good and to connect with God.
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On Kevin Morby's 2016 LP Singing Saw, the one-time Woods bassist and long-time solo singer-songwriter dealt with God and poetry like Bob Dylan microdosing LSD in the desert.
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There was full frontal female and male nudity, simulated hand jobs, and copulation interspersed with heart-wrenching, deluded self-sacrifice mixed with stern Calvinistic morality tinged by imagined conversations with God.
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" She added: "I realized, 'I'm gonna follow in the footsteps of my father in that I'm gonna meet an early death if I do not get right with God and follow him.
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"My thing is, anybody who says another person is not touchable in their sport or in life doesn't believe in God because, with God, anything can happen," Trayvon Bromell said this week.
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As for Americans who believe in evolution with God playing no role, that's now up to 248 percent—the highest figure ever recorded since Gallup started running this poll 230 years ago.
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From her room, she learns to balance the outside world's influence with her interior life as she deepens her relationship with God, and wrestles with the fraught relationship between piety and gender.
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Invading the church, he warns the fearful citizens that America "has long equated democracy with capitalism and capitalism with God" and that by resisting his unfriendly takeover they are engaged in blasphemy.
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Some calculating in their own minds what they might have to sell or borrow just to make it for a few more months, some bargaining with God for whatever they could get.
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You've been accused of "messing with God" by offering hormone blockers to young children—is that a new thing, or is it just that people have more awareness of these issues now?
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I want to rest and spend time with god so that I can rethink my priorities and evaluate the last year, correct the mistakes I've made, and make myself a better person.
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You would think that those who repeatedly preach that no earthly wealth or power is more important than a relationship with God and truth would give one moral clarity about this situation.
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The film actress Gemma Arterton ("Tamara Drewe," the new "Their Finest") is on view as the audience enters the auditorium, caught in a celestial shaft of light as she communes with God.
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He put his relationship with Deas up there with the inspiration he draws from Muhammad Ali, with his family members like his Grandma and his children, and also his relationship with God.
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In the temple, church members worship God and Jesus Christ by participating in ordinances (religious ceremonies) where we learn more about God's plan for us and make covenants (sacred promises) with God.
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But then, after one final round of IVF, the couple's 6½-year-old son Alessandro had a surprise: He knew his mom was pregnant after a conversation, he says, he had with God.
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Scholtz said that Pistorius "takes some comfort" in the knowledge that Steenkamp is with God, and that the athlete, a known gun collector, had sold all his weapons and had sworn off firearms.
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I was part of what's known as "ceaseless prayer," which is the idea that you always have a constant conversation with God going on in the back of your mind at all times.
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A corrugated metal sign screaming "GET RIGHT WITH GOD" by Henry Harrison Mayes, who hung thousands of such evangelical signs around the country, is hurled into proximity with the likes of Romare Bearden.
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" She adds, "Before any of [the fame] happened, I sat down with myself and with God and thought, when I make it, how do you want me to represent you while I'm here?
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"I believe in caring for my partner – past or present – 'in sickness and in health' and feel at peace with my relationship with God even after the fact," Kardashian said in her letter.
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But there's one big problem with store-bought nuggets: They are the very definition of mystery meat, filled with God-only-knows-what-type of meat and a panoply of shelf-stabilizing chemicals.
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Jesus, St. Francis, Gandhi, and the holy men and women of every branch of the ethical religious tradition share an outlook: Simplicity is good for the soul, for the right relation with God.
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It's worth taking the opportunity this month to ask how we can feed our souls by building that connection with God, and being mindful and grateful for the blessings we consume every day.
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You were up in the stratosphere, with no body at all, floating, almost right there with God, you were hanging off the pearly gates, and nobody and nothing could make you come back.
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"Eric took this photo from our backyard right after the accident happened where Kobe, his daughter, and other beautiful souls were lifted up to be with God for eternity," Simpson wrote on Instagram.
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Kingelez has a bit of the outsider artist in his boastfulness, including suggestions of communicating with God, and in his belief that his work would result in ''lasting peace, justice and universal freedom.
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The play is inspired by John Milton's epic poem imagining a history before history, with God and his angels waging a battle for heaven and, eventually, for the souls of Adam and Eve.
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And he began questioning his entire belief system: If Jesus preached the message of one true God, then why can't there simply be one God and no trinity, no partners associated with God?
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They dated in 2016 briefly, and the feelings never really went away," the source said, explaining the the pair "have a lot in common, and connect deeply over their faith and relationship with God.
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"Builders of Peace, Promotes of Life," in Bogota, "Reconciliation with God, among Colombians and with Nature" Villavicencio, "The Christian Vocation and Apostolate" in Medellin, and "The Dignity of People and Human Rights" in Cartagena.
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The Church defines as saints those believed to have led such holy lives they are now in Heaven and can intercede with God to perform miracles - two of which are needed to confer sainthood.
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"If you're honest and you're passionate, most folks aren't going to freak out over the fact that your center comes from a relationship with God," he told The New York Times on Aug. 26.
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The Catholic Church posthumously confers beatification, and later sainthood, on people considered so holy during their lives that they are now believed to be with God and can intercede with him to perform miracles.
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"Pause from this compulsion to a fast-paced life that scatters, divides and ultimately destroys time with family, with friends, with children, with grandparents, and time as a gift...time with God," he said.
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Looking, in Elkhanah Pulitzer's game but dull staging, like a touring company of "Rent" in their faux-bohemian street clothes, these folks gradually express their frustration with God, and with old rituals and maxims.
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The film follows Maud (Morfydd Clark)—a hospice nurse who has a, uh... loaded relationship with God—as she takes care of Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), a former dancer who's been diagnosed with terminal lymphoma.
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As the road to Franz's death becomes ever more certain, he makes his peace with God, ever gazing upwards and remembering those times in the fields with Franziska when he felt at his fullest.
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Kenneth Copeland and Jesse Duplantis had an incredible conversation in front of television cameras explaining that their private jets allow them to have direct conversations with God, and travel to places they otherwise couldn't reach.
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Chris Watts, the Colorado man who murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters, claims in a chilling jailhouse letter to his mother that he's a changed man who has a newfound relationship with God.
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Trump's explanation for his conversion to an anti-abortion stance—implausible as it might appear to some—mirrors the common narrative of a sinner realizing the error of his ways and getting right with God.
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"That's the same thing that Uber said and then they were caught with their pants down with God mode," a widely available internal tool that allowed Uber staffers to spy on both drivers and passengers.
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" It's part of a longer passage in which God tells Jeremiah he will punish his people for forgetting the covenant their forefathers made with God, and for "return[ing] to the sins of their forefathers.
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And all the way through, as soon as you drive through Ulster, you're just assailed by sides of the halls saying things like, JESUS WHERE Or you know, TIME TO MAKE YOUR PEACE WITH GOD.
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I had to realize that Christians can get depressed -- and this is OK. Depression does not mean you have a weak relationship with God or that your faith isn't as strong as it should be.
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The group, clad in solid black and white T-shirts, replied with "God bless you," but some of them, too, got caught up in the moment, chasing the cars and hurling their own invectives back.
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Having arrived from the Philippines when she was 2, she rehearsed a Boston accent and prayed for a metamorphosis, pleading with God to turn her into a white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.
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From a silly, ill-fated attempt to purchase Greenland that turned into a diplomatic row to amplifying a conspiracy theorist who compared him with God, Trump seems to be out there more than ever before.
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She believed that there was a life after that was better than this one, and she trusted that she would wake up with God, and with those from her family who had died before her.
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Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" describes string theory in layperson's terms and it sure sounds a lot like the "everything is connected" ideology found in "Conversations with God" if we loosen our brains a bit.
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Last Sunday's full Moon in Pisces had a religious tinge, illuminating the sector of your chart the Hellenistic astrologers associated with God—as if a Pisces full Moon wasn't already spiritual enough on its own!
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The frame rate difference feels huge to me, and I'm not playing on a 4K TV. But I spent the first two or so hours with God of War tweaking settings on two different systems.
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The new title, though, calls up a different biblical association: the story of Noah and the ark, which concludes with God making a covenant with mankind to never again destroy the earth with a flood.
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But Ramadan al-Anzi's column in al-Jazirah newspaper describing King Salman as "Haleem", or forbearing, and "Shadeed al-Eqab", strict in punishment - both terms associated in Islam with God - appeared to have gone too far.
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He badmouthed the establishment, despite being totally in synch with them, policy-wise; he spoke movingly about his humble beginnings and his relationship with God and Providence; and he subtly made the case against Donald Trump.
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John Paul implies that it is an absence: that life can only be fully experienced in communion with God, so that conscious rejection of that communion automatically implies an end to existence in the fullest sense.
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Pastor Kelsey, from the Campaign Church of God, created a video of the special moment that was posted on Facebook and said that the "sweet little elderly lady" wanted to get her heart right with God.
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The term itself is a Latin idiom that literally translates to I wish to be dissolved, which, in a Christian context, derives from the desire to end life on Earth in order to be with God.
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In addition to turning polls on their heads, Trump became the first newly elected president to not end his victory speech with "God bless America" or "God bless the United States" since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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In old-fashioned Mediterranean communities, where everybody was formally devout, the task of praying, church-going and keeping the family right with God and His saints was one that fell to females more than to males.
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But I recognized in my own faith and relationship with God that the things I was hearing from the pulpit and some of the things I was hearing from church members weren't how God saw me.
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As in the case of Mother Teresa, who was canonized Sunday by Pope Francis, miracles are still used as evidence that the candidate is in heaven and had interceded with God in response to a petition.
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All there is to do, if you want to go to heaven and hang out with God for the rest of time, is to "accept him into our hearts," and he'll save us from eternal damnation.
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Woven into the pressure on his national team, there was the endless dichotomy drawn between Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo: that the former is blessed with God-given talent, the latter the product of relentless self-improvement.
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Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, a leading theologian of Reform Judaism who argued that the modern emphasis on reason and self-imposed ethics needed the undergirding of what he called a covenantal relationship with God, died on Jan.
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In a series of split-personality dialogues with God — think of Gollum in "Lord of the Rings" — Bess swerves between righteousness and remorse: passages that Ms. Mazzoli shoots through with wailing electric guitar and menacing choral chant.
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Fortunately, the music — ornate mainstream arena rock but with God-only lyrics that are vetted for adherence to theology — also happens to be "very good," said Tom Wagner, an ethnomusicologist at work on a book about Hillsong.
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"We're trying to reach North Korea with God, with Jesus and with practical assistance," Mr. Garratt said in the sermon, which was for a time on the website of the Terra Nova Church in Surrey, British Columbia.
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He'd sinned against God by succumbing to temptation to sexual impurity — a sin that, in the congregation's eyes, Woodson and Savage had shared equal responsibility for — and thus, by repenting, he had restored that relationship with God.
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I found it through my family when I was a child, and through my wife and children when I was older, and one thing that was constant throughout was the always-changing, ever-fascinating love with God.
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Many people told me that my baby was with God now: "A baby angel," said a nurse as she slipped a pocket-size booklet about babies in heaven into my hand as I walked out the door.
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The gnarled relationship that nuns have with God — and by extension, themselves — is what spurred writer and director Maggie Betts to write the screenplay that would become the film Novitiate, which just saw its Sundance Film Festival premiere.
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In one poll asking people why they considered themselves Anglican, the three top answers had nothing to do with God: the faith was deemed "integral to English culture", "an ethical voice in society" and "part of our heritage".
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But with all that's going on in Rio, it's hard not to watch Great British Baking Show and picture Nadiya on a podium with, "God Save the Queen" playing, as she is triumphantly declared Britain's greatest amateur baker.
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God also gifts spouses with the possibility of becoming parents through the act of "love-making" and to become co-creators with Him in bringing forth new human souls who are destined to be with God for eternity.
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Sorbo's character embodies all the tropes many conservative Christians see in the liberal media (including Hollywood): intellectual, condescending, arrogant, and either angry with God or aiming to overthrowing him (à la Lucifer) and make himself the most high.
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As interpreted by early monastics, the great chain of being began with God, below which came angels and other creatures of the spirit, followed by humans, followed by other animals, plants, and, at the base, rocks and minerals.
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Kazin's journal may well be the last great exemplar of this form, with its startling revelation of a secular intellectual's long fascination with God — unless V. S. Naipaul has kept a secret diary chronicling his seduction by Islam.
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" In an Instagram post, Mr. Black, the star of "Nacho Libre," which spoofed the lucha libre culture, shared a photograph of Mr. González Barrón on the set and wrote, "Vaya con dios, hermano," or "Go with God, brother.
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When being penetrated by a wife, she explains, Christian men are able to maintain their heterosexual masculinity through their strong relationship with God, a presence with a unique ability to know a man's "true" sexuality and gender identity.
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But even with God on his side, the Kurtwell scandal is unlikely to go away on its own, and we're very curious what the reporter meant when she mentioned that Kurtwell is blackmailing Pius into not investigating the scandal.
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That gave us a quintessential Trump presidency moment, with Trump singing along with "God Bless America" but apparently not knowing the words: This isn't even the first time that the president didn't know the words to a patriotic song.
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He adds, whenever life gets tough, religion and music guide him—a message enshrined in "Fall From Grace," a resonant track in which he pleads with God for direction while asserting his independence and capabilities in the rap game.
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But surely "soul" is now sufficiently generalized in English to mean "life force" or "inherent humanity," rather than being confined to the strictly Christian sense of a particle of eternity, bargained over with God in good and bad behaviors.
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I heard Paulette tell a crowd she was the only one who could set her cousin free; that Monique needed Paulette to tell her it was safe to let go and be with God, and only then did she peacefully pass.
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We learn little about Heaven as a company with God as C.E.O. in the pilot; it's not until the finale that we get amusing details like that there is a Department of Bug Control and it can't do its one job.
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Each member of the group adds a new verse to the remix, but as with the original, J Reezy steals the spotlight when he kicks off his verse with "GOD DAMN!" and then kicks some new bars with the same flow.
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What they have in common, beyond being indicative of the more mainstream-friendly direction in which faith-based film is almost certainly going to continue to move, is that they're driven by emotional relationships, both with others and with God.
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One psychological benefit of religious belief may be that, in theory, a relationship with God, with all its associated memories, can extend from early childhood through to death, and no matter where you are on the planet, it is there.
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The Tony-award winning singer, best known for her roles in the Broadway musicals "Dreamgirls" and "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God," announced the cancellation in a letter first published by The Wrap, an entertainment industry news website.
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Many of them fled religious intolerance in the old world and we Americans have the right to reject the imposition of unwanted religious practice in our lives, we have the right to live our lives with God or without Her.
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When Lexington interviewed Ben Carson, a retired brain surgeon, on a campaign bus trundling through North Carolina, the softly spoken doctor explained his bargain with God: he would heed the call if his Creator opened the doors to a presidential run.
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"The Flyers have enjoyed a long and popular relationship with 'God Bless America,' as performed by the late Kate Smith, a woman who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor for her patriotic contributions to our nation," the statement read.
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Nachman, a controversial mystic in his own time, gained renown—and quite a few detractors in the deeply conservative Hasidic world—for emphasizing the here and now, a personal relationship with God, and the celebratory, rather than punitive, aspects of Judaism.
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Repentance is not about listing broken rules (in which case it would be tempting to compare our list with our neighbor's, hoping to see that his is longer) but about restoring relationship — with God above all, and then with one another.
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This theory of objective moral goodness runs parallel to the theist belief of a higher law, and if a person desires to have a relationship with God, they must adhere to his commandments and keep his law on Earth (Craig).
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These kinds of inversions play a significant part in Christian scripture, which frequently proclaims that with God the first shall be last while the last shall be first; the lowly shall be exalted while the exalted shall be brought low.
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Beginning with "God Is an Englishman," it follows Adam Swann from his days as a young soldier in the British Army in 1857 through his marriage to steadfast, determined Henrietta, and their shaping of a dynastic business (Swann-on-Wheels!).
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In the light of the four decades of graphic novels that have followed it, "A Contract with God" is a display of Eisner's mighty labor to invent a new form, in commemoration of a cultural moment that had already disappeared.
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Faith, mankind's relationship with God, and the origins of humanity are all major preoccupations in these two Alien movies, from Elizabeth Shaw seeking God for answers about her father's death to David asking Peter Weyland in Covenant's opening sequence who created him.
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"They still haven't realized that the institution that has evolved the most in Honduras in terms of education is the armed forces," he said, before beginning to cry while talking about his relationship with God and how the program has been his salvation.
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Just days before she was to enter a rehab facility, Muthart used meth and experienced a hallucination that warped her perception of her relationship with God, and then led her to the railroad tracks outside that church on an early February morning.
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And a crucial text here -- a key one -- is Romans 3:22, where Paul suggests that reconciliation with God, which is a better way to define "righteousness," is achieved through imitating Jesus in his self-abandonment on the cross on Good Friday.
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Some evangelicals believe the transfer of the embassy and the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital will help bring about the so-called Rapture, an event in which they believe all Christians, living and dead, will join with God, the Independent wrote.
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As for the marine statue, which has two German-language plaques explaining that, with God, the colony's soldiers fought for the "Kaiser and empire," and was declared a national monument in 1969, the Council has referred the matter to the National Heritage Council.
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So it falls to a pair of low-level angels -- Craig (Radcliffe), and eager new arrival Eliza ("Blockers'" Geraldine Viswanathan) -- to try to save Earth by essentially making a high-stakes wager with God, seeing if they can bring two lovelorn people together.
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One of them, R.J. Rushdoony, developed a complicated theological system he called Christian Reconstructionism; he taught that "with God on their side, Christians had no need for majoritarian politics, or for compromise and accommodation to reach their goal," as FitzGerald puts it.
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While researching the history of Christianity for my book on faith and politics, I learned that in medieval Christianity, women were excluded from higher education and church leadership, and female mystics sought oneness with God by seeking revelations and visions from the Lord.
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In refusing to serve same-sex couples, he is violating Christ's rule to treat others as you would be treated...Christianity is about treating people with respect and supporting a relationship with God, not imposing your opinions on the world around you.
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A landmark case in 1996 upheld the dismissal of a devoutly Christian worker at a firm in Richmond, Virginia, after she told her supervisor to "get right with God" and warned a subordinate that she was sinning gravely by conceiving a child out of wedlock.
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Faith and technology are far from incompatible — nuns are huge on Snapchat, y'all — but bringing an active link to the internet directly into the inner sanctum on the Sabbath, where the "earthly" world is actively pushed aside for communion with God, was jarring for me.
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It was not only anti-elitist but anti-intellectual, "a religion of the heart, as opposed to the head", in which puritanical harangues were leavened by the promise of a widely shared salvation and, after a born-again experience, a direct relationship with God.
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Once, he wrote, all you had to do to pass the exams was read Marshall's "Principles" over the course of the year and the Times at breakfast every morning; the rest of the day was free for being "out on the river with God".
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And then there was her own huge, aching secret that she had kept close since the age of 11, that she was gay and damned to hell for it, much as she spent long nights in bed bargaining with God to let her off.
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Not because it's good for your relationship with God, but because if you don't, the temperature of the planet will be higher by 2100 than it's been for hundreds of millions of years, which means crop- withering heat waves, daunting hurricanes, rising seas, dying forests.
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We imagine that he's a guy who went south to avoid that conversation with God in some way, but he was swept out to sea and forced to have this conversation with the cosmos, and to confront himself in ways he didn't want to.
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In a new-New-Journalist amalgam of reportage and memoir, Kisner tethers — more elegantly in some pieces than in others — her sociological dispatches to the realm of personal experience: her on-again-off-again relationship with God, her O.C.D., her mixed ethnicity and sexuality.
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"Much like we see in the Bible, once a debt is paid, we are restored into a right relationship with God," Keith den Hollander, the Christian Coalition's national field director, wrote in a September op-ed in The News-Press, a South Florida newspaper.
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"When I have my interview with God at the end of my life, he's not going to ask me to show how high I went in anybody's org chart or how much money I left behind in the bank when I died," Christensen said.
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"What poured out of me was an imaginary conversation with God, which was one-sided, and I finished writing it, and I looked at it and said to myself .... I'm going to do this on 'The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,'" DeGeneres told the Tulane students.
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President Obama addressed world leaders at the 71st United Nations General Assembly for the last time in office on Tuesday, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. in calling for global citizens to "work as co-workers with God" in order to promote a more inclusive and secure world.
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Since I dare not use the "it drives like it rides on rails" cliche, let's say it almost felt like McLaren had done a special deal with God Almighty to order up an extra helping of gravity over the car, keeping the 5703S planted to the ground.
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Made her recall the nuns and their chalk drawings of the Great Chain of Being, that ladder of nature with God at the top, His angels below, then the Pope and the bishops and the mortal sinners and other bottom-dwellers like actors, pirates, reptiles, and rocks.
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If we got to heaven or nirvana, we would no longer be persons in any sense that we could recognize, no matter whether we imagine those ideal places through folk images of an eternal family reunion or through high-theological concepts of timeless unity with God.
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I also pushed my atheism on the crowd, noting that the US government is unlikely to fund life extension science so long as all 535 members of Congress, eight Supreme Court justices, and our president continue to publicly insist they believe in an afterlife with God.
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In the United States, she's best known for the 19783 single "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" and her radiant guest vocal on Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up," but she has a devoted following that includes many songwriters, among them Tori Amos and Maxwell.
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He's also an author, and his new book, "My Adventures With God," is the story of his lifelong relationship to spirituality, and particularly Judaism, told through reflections of his time growing up in Texas, his early years as an actor and his becoming a husband and father.
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The assumption that America lays claim to a "covenant" relationship with God, the confusion of the gospel of Christ with a party platform, the narrow definition of a "moral agenda" in American politics — all were among the unseemly aspects of Falwell's activism that survive his death.
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" Ms. Grant, who went on to work with Carroll on "Your Arms Too Short to Box With God" in 1976 and several other pieces, can still quote a letter she received decades ago from an audience member: "It made me bleed, but the incision was so clean.
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It is in this environment that nearly 2 billion Muslims will enter Ramadan this coming week to re-connect with God through fasting, abstinence from sex and drink from dawn to dusk, praying extra dedications at home and in mosques in the evenings, and seeking forgiveness for our trespasses.
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What is so striking about relatives and friends of the 26 victims of the church shooting in tiny Sutherland Springs is that they all believe good will come from this act of evil and that their loved ones are now safe for eternity, and breathing again, with God.
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I started making music out of a necessity to survive and to express myself and I just wanted to create something so I could feel worthy of existing, and if I've learned anything — anything at all in this life — it's that truly all things are possible with God.
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At the age of five (having sneaked into mass in the mornings on his way to school, not telling his non-practising parents), he made a serious bargain with God: if he let him live to 21, for he had been very ill, he would become a priest.
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"It was such an intense period for us, from the hormone treatment to the implantation of the embryos ... until it turned out that it was successful, that this gave us such a deep relationship with God that we never thought could be possible," said the mother, Boglarka Gyori.
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The film's interviewees highlight the importance of a close relationship between America and Israel — the two countries to have "special covenants" with God — and praise Trump's controversial decision to move the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, which many evangelicals see as a necessary step to fulfill various end times prophecies.
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The good thing is that the Villanueva Meddling TM often leads to happy endings, or in these cases, interesting narrative: Jane's interference in Rafael's relationship with God earlier in the season led him to the truth about his family — he's not blood-related to a bunch of drug dealers/murderers anymore!
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Being that she's dressed as a bishop, a higher up in the church, it symbolizes that she is the head of this family, and Jay-Z must atone to her if he wants access to their daughter — just like someone confessing their sins earns the right to speak with God.
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Once inside, we seem to be alternating between present-day Dolores, and her memories of the past: Her outfit changes back to the blue dress we met her in at the beginning of the series, and there are hosts crowding the pews, all talking to themselves, as if communing with God.
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He said he wanted to "restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life" but "there is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with (God)".
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But he told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on "State of the Union" that those wild days are past and that he now enjoys a "very great relationship with God" and "a very great relationship" with the evangelical Christian voters so important to candidates in Iowa.
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The great teacher and exemplar is Jesus of Nazareth, whose birth was an incarnation of God, whose death was a sacrifice made to put humankind at peace with God, and whose life enacted the love and truth that would conform our lives to the nature and the will of God.
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I mean… We've certainly all been there, buried in a debt of pain when the bill from the previous night's partying comes due—the joy and fun and bliss of the night disappearing with the morning sun, replaced with a brain-splitting, body-flattened regret that leaves you bargaining with God.
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And from the point of view of that patient or that family member, the medical hierarchy is often somewhat opaque; if someone has been rude to you, you may not know whether this is the clumsiness of a nervous trainee or the arrogance of a senior doctor with god delusions.
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I was able to sit down with God of War writer and director Cory Balrog at E3 and talk about what it means for Kratos to be a dad, how having Atreus as a son will make the traditionally one-note character grow, and how Atreus impacts the upcoming God of War game.
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"Threatening to kill Jewish people, gunning down innocent Latinos on a weekend shopping trip, planning and plotting to perpetrate murders in the name of a nonsense racial theory, sitting to pray with God-fearing people who you execute moments later — those actions don't make you soldiers, they make you criminals," Mr. Herdman said.
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"The Jim Bakker Show" recently promoted a coin decorated with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's face as a "point of contact" with God.
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" He added, "Threatening to kill Jewish people, gunning down innocent Latinos on a weekend shopping trip, planning and plotting to perpetrate murders in the name of a nonsense racial theory, sitting to pray with God-fearing people who you execute moments later - those actions don't make you soldiers, they make you cowards.
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"Threatening to kill Jewish people, gunning down innocent Latinos on a weekend shopping trip, planning and plotting to perpetrate murders in the name of a nonsense racial theory, sitting to pray with God-fearing people who you execute moments later — those actions don't make you soldiers, they make you cowards," Herdman said.
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In this unjustly criticized work, Bernstein's poignant setting of the traditional Jewish mourner's prayer alternates with episodes in which a narrator (a riveting Jeremy Irons), speaking a text by the composer, engages in a fierce argument with God, that "angry, wrinkled old majesty," backed up by a feisty orchestra and frightened chorus.
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I had a chance to sit down with God of War creative director Cory Barlog for a few minutes at the show, where we chatted about his five-year-old son, what being a father has meant for developing a game about violence, and whether Kratos should even be allowed a chance at redemption.
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Ms Runcie spends much of her book in the women's place, on the shore of the East Neuk of Fife, where she walks the dog, hunts for shells and sea-glass, exults in the flight of gannets and sea eagles and visits shrines and caves where saints, all male, communed with God and the waves.
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"There is a lot of questioning about who I am in this world and where I fit in with God and what is God to me," Moore says about some of what his songwriting is conjuring up on the new record, which he says is the best body of work he has ever done.
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Secular Buddhists try to, just as people who are sympathetic to the ethical basis of Christianity try to tiptoe past the doctrines of Heaven and Hell, so that Hell becomes "the experience of being unable to love," or Heaven a state of "being one with God"—not actual places with brimstone pits or massed harps.
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They'll want to know if you hated or loved the people in your audience, the people who paid your wages, stole your wages, arrested you once for fraternizing with a white man, jailed you for hooking, jailed you for being, and raided your hospital room, right at the end, as you lay conversing with God.
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"Your song has allowed my best friend and her wonderful family to grieve in a way that they can seek comfort in knowing that Cole is okay because he is with God now on the outskirts of heaven, where there's hay in the fields and fish in the river," Stewart said in a letter to Campbell.
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The idea with God Loves was, again, [intended so that] if you never read an issue of a regular series but wanted to know what the series, the concepts, the characters, the reality was all about — and to do so in a way that had, and sadly still has, relevance to the "real world" — this was the story.
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They struggle daily to walk with God in a way that's best for everyone—and still were able to rationalize their way into participating in some of the ugliness that grew up in the wake of the country electing its first black president, and followed that by proudly supporting a man who ran on a platform of open bigotry.
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" His song "Let's Pretend We're Married" begins with a hot come-on — "Excuse me but I need a mouth like yours, to help me forget the girl that just walked out my door" — but it ends with heaven: "I'm in love with God, He's the only way, cuz you and I know we gotta die some day.
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Friedman's talk ended with him positing that humans spend most of their time today in the essentially "god-less" realm of "cyberspace," a realm "where we're all connected but no one's in charge," while at the same time we've achieved better than ever ability to act with god-like power to control and manipulate our environment.
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As is known to fans of the comics, which were published between 1995 and 2000 by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, there is plenty of perversity, violence and potential blasphemy to come: stories about the incestuous continuation of the bloodline of Jesus; a Ku Klux Klansman with a sexual attraction to meat; and a confrontation with God himself.
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"It may simply be that there's not a single breaking point as much as a tipping point, the 'Oh Lord, I can't stand another one of these,'" said William Martin, a scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and author of "With God on Our Side," which charted the political rise of the religious right.
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Our resident snake/weasel/[insert other name the contestants have lobbed at him] tells Hannah about his shower scene with God — the one where he says God spoke to him and he decided to stop being a player so he could be ready to find his wife — and divine intervention wins Hannah over despite Garrett's confession.
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What undergirds the "personhood" claim, as well as the anti-abortion position in general, is a fundamental religious belief among some people that at the moment of conception a soul has been implanted in that fertilized human egg, providing the possibility not only of life on this Earth, but also, of vastly greater importance, eternal life with God.
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