Sentence examples for God's aim from inspiring English sources

The amount of suffering is immense — far more, certainly, than it would be if God's aim were to maximize worldly joy.

But don't we know other things besides God? Yes, Malebranche will answer, but given God's aim in creation we can know his works only if we also see him to some extent (3.2.6, OC 1 442-3; LO 233).

Three species of cause: efficient causes (in accordance with laws of mind and active forces), final causes (in accordance with the law of appetites and ultimately God's aim of universal and maximum harmony), and formal causes (in accordance with the Law of Continuity).

More of this will be addressed in the section on divine causation, but for now suffice it to say that God's causal role in the actions of finite substances at the very minimum is to pre-establish the concomitance or conjunction between "causes" and "effects," without which God's aim of producing universal and maximum harmony (Monadology §46) would be frustrated.

Rather, on this scenario God's aims as creator can only be achieved — assuming they will be achieved at all — by taking risks.

God's ultimate aim in all his works must therefore be himself.

One of its founding principles is to connect what it calls the "grassroots' patriot movement" with the Church and it says "God's warriors" should aim at "promoting moral awareness - prayer, humility, worship and seeking God's direction".

Among other things, Howe has made a long-term project of trying to determine how we fit into God's world, and her aim is both true and marvelously free of sentimental piety.

It is through the example of God's goodness that Seneca aims to explain why giving should really not be done with a view to one's own advantage: there is no advantage that God could possibly gain from us, and yet God benefits all of us (4.3.3).

In walking this way of the Risen Christ, the aim of God's criminal justice is not to put offenders in chains, but to release us all of our own.

The festival's aim is to thank the God for sustaining life and energy on earth.