Sentence examples for Divine benevolence from inspiring English sources

There were devoted pagans who fasted, practiced sacrifice and divination with great zeal, who took ritual baths and made pilgrimages to the best-known sanctuaries; who were attentive to all divine warnings, dreams, mystical signs, miraculous cures, and to all the various manifestations of divine benevolence; who believed in exorcisms and in the divination of the future with the help of mirrors.

To designers of stained-glass church windows in medieval Europe light was divine benevolence in sensible form.

But God's grace consoles man with forgiveness, and man's works, though imperfect, are a response in joy and gratitude for divine benevolence.

You could also pray: insofar as cholera was a divine scourge, you could supplement a renewed dedication to God's laws of wholesome living by beseeching divine benevolence.

The king, an earthly image of his god, was the intermediary who ensured that his kingdom would continue to receive divine benevolence in the form of water in controlled quantities.

Bayesian statistics were invented in the 18th century by Thomas Bayes, a theologian and mathematician whose works include "Divine Benevolence, or an Attempt to Prove That the Principal End of the Divine Providence and Government Is the Happiness of His Creatures".

For another, there is no reason to suppose that the self-existent entity it points to has any other divine attributes, like omniscience or benevolence.

In his novel "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge," Rilke writes of those who have been thrown away (die Fortgeworfenen), or what Michael Hulse translates as "the untouchables": those sad "husks of men, spat out by fate," as Rilke describes them, unworthy of being touched by either divine providence or simple human benevolence.

This change raises the person to a level where he receives constant divine inspiration through God's benevolence.

While still in France, Paine formed the Church of Theophilanthropy with five other families; this civil religion held as its central dogma that man should worship God's wisdom and benevolence and imitate those divine attributes as much as possible.

His experience of the Divine had reminded him of a Universal Benevolence, which he felt was reflected in the interconnectedness of life not only of humanity but also of humanity with animals, nature and her elements.