Sentences with phrase «god deigns»
At the same time, however, God deigns to employ human agents and to use human instruments for the accomplishment of his purpose.
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«We too are «virgins» who are incapable of bearing God,» until God deigns to be born in our ordinariness as in Mary's, argues Presbyterian theologian Cynthia Rigby.
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What kind of arrogance must be required to believe that, if indeed god exists, he would deign to talk to the average Joe or Jane.
God is the one who deigns to wrestle with Jacob, to debate with the stricken Job.
When God «died,» people began to trust a conceit of reason and its inflated ambition to do what even God had not deigned to do: construct a just social order.
O Lord Jesus Christ, Who said to Your Apostles: «Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you,» regard not my sins but the faith of Your Church, and deign to give her peace and unity according to Your Will: Who live and reign, God, world without end.
Heck, I'd have settled for more than the two that Besson deigns to give us: «Oh, my God, these guys want to kill me» and «I am God, watch me kill these guys.»
How could the gods of the art world deign to endure pain?