Sentence examples for Divine intention from inspiring English sources
For Thomas the literal sense, expressing the author's intention, was a fit object of scientific study; the figurative senses unfolded the divine intention.
Is it possible that the loving intention that prompts a cook to prepare a meal for guests is somehow analogous to the divine intention that creates the feast of life some call creation?
Inevitably, the tide of history and divine intention will bring the single Islamic nation into being, with its own nuclear weapons that will give the Islamists the opportunity to do collectively what the suicide bombers are doing individually: destroy themselves and their enemy in a final act of martyrdom.
Back then, hiding your meaning from those who would do you harm was one reason for arranging words in inventive ways; another was the belief that words that fitted together did so for a reason, and so word-squares and the like revealed divine intention.
So instances of resistance are qualities of ideas and the power of resistance is a stable divine intention to act in certain ways.
Mr. McCain singled out the need for human agents, saying, "Satellites can't divine intentions".
The desire to see America and its leaders as instruments for the fulfillment of divine intentions remains an important cause of their longstanding sympathy for Zionism and the State of Israel.
If these artists preferred to see divine intentions rather than Darwinian randomness in "the sculpting hands of fire and ice," they nonetheless brought a taste for adventure (Moran accompanied the great geological surveys as they charted the Yellowstone and Grand Canyon) and a zealous desire to get geological details right.
If obligation arises from divine intentions, though, then no obligations will ever be violated.
But note that even thus strengthened (3) is compatible with (1) or (2) understood as an identity claim: if the claim is that obligations just are divine commands or divine intentions, then the compatibility with (1) and (2) is reestablished.
