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- proper noun A patronymic
surname derived fromEvan with afolk etymology spelling. - proper noun A female
given name of modern usage from the nounheaven .
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Examples
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Through Jesus we are on our way to heaven, but Heaven is not our goal.
Francis prays to understand and feel the love and pain of Jesus Crucified. St. Joseph's Secular Franciscan Fraternity 2009
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The intersection of "kindness and truth" with "justice and peace" formed the cross, that cross of Jesus crucified, "the root of Jesse has blossomed" with the crimson corpse of the Divine Son, while justice has looked down from heaven, like that scene in Gibson's film, "The Passion", where that huge drop of water, that tear falls from Heaven, from the Divine Father.
Archive 2006-07-16 Terry Nelson 2006
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The intersection of "kindness and truth" with "justice and peace" formed the cross, that cross of Jesus crucified, "the root of Jesse has blossomed" with the crimson corpse of the Divine Son, while justice has looked down from heaven, like that scene in Gibson's film, "The Passion", where that huge drop of water, that tear falls from Heaven, from the Divine Father.
Justice and peace... Terry Nelson 2006
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Before parting she advised me to be a good boy, and she would pray for me, and I must pray for her, and hoped we might meet again in heaven, and I at once commenced to pray, to the best of my knowledge, “Our Father art in Heaven, be Thy name, kingdom come. ”
Narrative of the Life of J D Green a Runaway Slave from Kentucky Green, Jacob D 1864
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OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil; For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever.
The Order for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, Together with the Ante-Communion Office and a Selection of Occasional Prayers from Various Offices of the Book of Common Prayer. Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America 1863
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OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil.
The Order for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, Together with the Ante-Communion Office and a Selection of Occasional Prayers from Various Offices of the Book of Common Prayer. Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America 1863
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OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever and ever.
The Order for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, Together with the Ante-Communion Office and a Selection of Occasional Prayers from Various Offices of the Book of Common Prayer. Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America 1863
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In her deathbed, an elderly woman who had suffered much in her life, told me once: «Father, if you do not savour the Cross, you do not desire Heaven; if there is no Cross there is no Heaven».
Spero News 2010
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Before parting she advised me to be a good boy, and she would pray for me, and I must pray for her, and hoped we might meet again in heaven, and I at once commenced to pray, to the best of my knowledge, "Our Father art in Heaven, be Thy name, kingdom come.
Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 Jacob D. Green
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Angels, for of them it is said: _Their Angels in Heaven always see the face of My Father Who is in Heaven_. [
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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