It is unpatriotic to expose the nation to its enemies without taking every measure possible to insure the divine blessing.
They do make huge donations to temples, which is not surprising because their children will be among the direct beneficiaries of a divine blessing.
He concluded that day's entry by saying he hoped he "was call'd of God to write" the pamphlet and that a divine blessing would accompany it.
And this ardor, to which Augustine gives the technical name "concupiscence," was not simply a natural endowment or a divine blessing; it was a touch of evil.
N. K. Auddy, a consulting engineer from Kolkata, was taking part in his first Kumbh because his daughter recently gave birth to his first grandchild, and he was hoping for a divine blessing for the child.
But Goenawan Mohammad, a former editor of a banned weekly, Tempo, and head of KIPP, says his personal objective now is "to protect people who don't want to vote .A boycott also appears to have been given divine blessing.
In the subsequent chapters of Genesis, Abraham and his descendants are singled out not merely as the object of the divine blessing but also as its channel to all humanity.
Into this new order the rest of humankind, repentant and purified, will be incorporated, for the original promise made to the patriarch Abraham included all within the divine blessing.
But when he and his family do finally -- almost miraculously -- find all the Ghasemis alive, safe and prosperous, such optimism seems almost to have received a kind of divine blessing.
On Saturday, the leader demonstrated his own enthusiasm for the re-elected president, hailing the outcome as "a divine blessing" even before the official three-day challenge period had passed.
