Sentence examples for Divine favor from inspiring English sources

Those who spurn such a god will be punished by divinity while those who show true hospitality will find divine favor.

Such donations are, of course, meant to win divine favor for the donors and their children.

In fact, I dread the effect that this unexpected divine favor will have on my country.

More basic for these Muslims is the omnibus promise of divine favor rewarding them for righteous deeds.

So then, the scholars argue, the author of Mark, whoever he was — the familiar names conventionally attached to each Gospel come later* — added the famous statement of divine favor, descending directly from the heavens as they opened.

The key bulwark of faith-based Trumpism is the prosperity gospel — a movement rooted in Pentecostal preaching that holds that God directly dispenses divine favor in the capitalist marketplace to his steadfast believers.

Modern accounts, she argues, have played down the divine in favor of explorations of human behavior.

Communal welfare depended on divine wrath or favor, which might bring on flood, famine or bountiful harvest.

Perhaps nowhere in presocratic philosophy can we find a clearer expression of the character of the Ionian 'intellectual revolution' a decision to put aside an older way of thinking about events grounded in a belief in divine beings in favor of an approach to understanding the world that employs wide-ranging inquiry and direct observation and resorts to strictly physical causes and forces.

In more recent times, those who stress a more anthropomorphic account of God, or God's immanence within human history, have favored divine everlastingness.

Like Trump, Osteen obsessively refers to the long, impressive record of his own economic good fortune as Exhibit A in the divine sanctioning of material favor.