Sentence examples for divine intent from inspiring English sources
The relation is ideally that of witness to the divine intent in the world.
To the Editor: James Wood is right to say that very great mischief proceeds from speculation about divine intent.
Dante created his great image of divine intent, justice and grace as the architecture of time and being.
The head of the Anglican Communion said Islamist extremists had launched a "false apocalypse" - a perverted revelation of divine intent - by "igniting a trail of fear, violence, hatred and determined oppression".
"Prayer for inner and outer peace", he wrote on the score of his Missa Solemnis (Prom 5), a work that wrestles with human frailty and divine intent, punching this way and that in vain search of answers.
An evangelical Christian, virtuous in his personal life, he was convinced that certain events were inevitable and of divine intent, though he admitted that it was "hard upon the poor people that they should be deprived of knowing that they are suffering from an affliction of God's providence".
But it provided no guidance on how to divine that intent in cases where ballots are indented or partly perforated.
Don't be quite so insistent on choreographing every department's public actions or so quick to divine evil intent when decisions are criticized.
Although I am a supporter of Al Gore, I am dismayed at the effort of Democrats to divine "voter intent" on problematic ballots in Florida (front page, Nov. 21).
Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to read another, to divine its intent, to know the enemy.
