Sentence examples for god providence from inspiring English sources

After defining God, providence and fate, he comes to necessity (necessitas), the logical conclusion of their co-operation: everything which is governed by fate happens by necessity (De constantia I.19).

If the evils of this life appear to conflict with God's providence, God's providence and foreknowledge themselves seem to entail that everything occurs of necessity and hence that there is no free will.

According to William, God's providence or providing for the universe differs from foreknowledge in that, unlike foreknowledge, it embraces only goods and not also evils.

God's providence is a comforting notion, but he knows better than to rely on it.

Kook saw secular Zionists as the unwitting agents of God's providence, advancing redemption by returning Jews to their homeland.

"Anything that happens is God's providence," Father Trinh said, when asked what he would tell mourning parishioners.

She wrote that they "made me feel the very ground I trod on to be consecrated by some special dealing of God's providence".

I've been working on my temper during this Nativity fast season, on trusting God's providence in difficult situations and on learning how to see God in everyone.

Pondering what this vision might mean, he finally understood that by God's providence he would be made like to the crucified Christ not by a bodily martyrdom but by conformity in mind and heart.

People who never knew the meaning of the word "theodicy" - the justification of God's providence in the face of a world full of suffering - have been quickly inducted.

The signal illusion from which America has to awake in Iraq and everywhere else is that it serves God's providence or (for those with more secular beliefs) that it is the engine of history.