Sentence examples for dependence on god from inspiring English sources
When I left Catholicism my sense of independence and self-sufficiency was too strong to accommodate a personal relationship with, or recognition of my dependence on, God.
Thus, a thing does not depend on God for its existence; its dependence on God is its existence.
Where Occasionalism stresses our dependence on God's power, Vision in God underscores our dependence on his wisdom.
An example would be an awareness of God (a reality) affording an awareness of one's utter dependence on God (a state of affairs).
Contemporary theologians Arthur Peacocke and Ian Barbour also claim that the doctrine of the "creation" of the universe is best interpreted as one of the universe's timeless dependence on God, and that such dependence does not demand a temporal creation event.
Schleiermacher conceived a perfect world to be one in which God's purposes can naturally be achieved, and will ultimately lead to dependence on God.
Monotheistic metaphysicians disagreed over both (a) on what in God modal truths and modal truth-makers depend and (b) by what manner of dependence modal truths and modal-truth makers depend on God.
One focus of the debate is which would be greater: a world so perfectly crafted that God does not need to intervene to keep it running (Leibniz), or a world so dependent on God that one cannot understand the world without recognizing its continual dependence on the operations of God (Clarke).
Since that which essence is depends on essence itself, while the fact of being an essence derives from a formal dependence (similitudo) on God, it follows that within essence itself there is a composition prior to the one so far described between essence and existence.
The second camp focuses, as noted above, on the notion of ontological dependence itself, attempting to clarify a way in which everything depends on God.
According to Descartes' account, (a) modal truths and modal truth-makers depend on God's volitions and (b) the form of dependence is efficient causation.
