gospel

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She quoted from the Gospel of John.

Then her eyes lit up, and she said, "Well, one time Big Mama told me she went out to the hives on Christmas Eve and heard the bees singing the words of the Christmas story right out of the gospel of Luke."  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

They claim faith, but this is not what the gospel teaches.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

My confidence in pulpit Gospel lessened at the vision of Miss Maudie stewing forever in various Protestant hells.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

The missionaries spent their first four or five nights in the marketplace, and went into the village in the morning to preach the gospel.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

The story is told in the gospel of John:  (source) Todd Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, 2010

Do you read the Gospel, Mr. Proctor?  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

And the author of the Gospel of John never mentions his own name...  (source) Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart, 2008

Listening to his travels we knowed he was close to God, and now we wanted him to pick up the gospel.  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1971

They will be the young high school and college students, the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders, courageously and nonviolently sitting in at lunch counters and willingly going to jail for conscience' sake.  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

And since Mr. Dimmesdale had taken her in charge, the good grandam's chief earthly comfort—which, unless it had been likewise a heavenly comfort, could have been none at all—was to meet her pastor, whether casually, or of set purpose, and be refreshed with a word of warm, fragrant, heaven-breathing Gospel truth, from his beloved lips, into her dulled, but rapturously attentive ear.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

A youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

She takes it as gospel.

McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order, that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took as gospel the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

And that's Gospel.  (source) Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die, 1972

At this point in the gospels, Jesus suspects He will soon be captured and crucified.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

And so the myth of the Resurrection was added onto the gospels.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

"And that makes it gospel truth," he said.  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1971

And, most wonderful of all, not indeed a whole Bible, but in four small booklets, the four Gospels.†  (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

I can't resist these precious Gospels.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

The Gospels offer us a positive model for their argument: Jesus is the embodiment of the behaviors Christian believers should embrace as well as the spiritual goal toward which they strive.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

When Mary Magdalene and the other women showed up outside Jesus' tomb on the third day after he was buried, the gospels say that an angel met them, sitting on the tombstone that had somehow been rolled away: "His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.†  (source) Todd Burpo, Heaven Is for Real, 2010

Jesus did not address slavery at all in the Gospels; Saint Paul and Aristotle accepted it; and Jewish and Islamic theologians believed in mercy toward slaves but did not question slavery itself.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in the other Gospels.†  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

All I heard growing up was gospel, blues, and jazz.

She hums with gospel songs on the radio and says, "Give me strength, Lord."  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

It wasn't a gospel tune exactly, but it carried all the personality of one.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

We didn't like for him to listen to the radio, either; 'less he was listening to gospel music on Sundays.  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1971

A sign announced a gospel sing at the Mount Zion Baptist Church that took place back in 1957, if anyone wanted to know.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002