Sentence examples for benevolent being from inspiring English sources

Acquaintances who told the couple that the death of Jennifer was part of a grand plan by a benevolent being offended the Asches.

Spielberg has always been a master of premonition, anticipation, and arrival; many of us have happy memories of the radiant epiphanies in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," in which extraterrestrials, their scaly arms outstretched, emerged from supernal light as a higher form of benevolent being.

There is also a famous problem casting doubt on the existence of God: Why, if God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent being, is there evil in the world?

A more sustained objection against virtually all versions of the teleological argument takes issue with the assumption that the cosmos is good or that it is the sort of thing that would be brought about by an intelligent, completely benevolent being.

Such spiritual beings when regarded as benevolent are usually called angels in Western religions; those viewed as malevolent are termed demons.

I don't know if benevolent is the right word".

Benevolent isn't the only site trying to use direct cash grants to help the poor.

Sweeney Investigates 9.50pm, BBC2 Just how benevolent is Kabbalah, that suddenly trendy form of Jewish mysticism that has taken hold of Madonna, Britney Spears and thousands around the world?

On the one hand, he denies that the truly benevolent are motivated by self-love.

I'm incredibly grateful to have known such a benevolent human being.

I hear benevolent dictatorships are nice.