TheBlaze founder Glenn Beck, one of Cruz's most high-profile supporters, told voters at a South Carolina rally that the senator was "raised for this hour" by the "hand of divine providence". Cruz was supposed to be a messianic figure to save Christian America from its downward secularist spiral.
It was inevitable that the clergy should have leapt in at this point to claim that Smith was talking up a system of free trade whose beneficence was being guaranteed by the invisible hand of divine providence rather than by the state.
McConaughey began by giving all praise to God, because his own career demonstrates the hand of divine guidance and care so clearly.
My life is in the hands of a divine power that is eternal and can never be vanquished by human efforts.
The believer thus maintains, on the one hand, acknowledgement of divine omnipotence as the creative power of God, which also operates in the preservation of the world, and, on the other hand, trusts in the world, which despite all its contradictions is understood as one world created by God according to definite laws and principles and according to an inner plan.
For now, the fate of Syria appears to be largely in the hands of non-divine outside powers, notably Russia and the United States, each backing and arming opposing sides in the civil war.
It might be supposed that the human condition is so distinctive and came so late in the history of life on Earth as to suggest the hand of a divine creator.
The cathedral, like an anecdote in a medieval sermon, yields its lesson: so, too, the life of the individual believer, no matter how seemingly perfect, awaits the hand of the divine artisan.
When a pestilence of cotton-worm descends on Epp's plantation, the hand of the divine at last seems present.
Prayer is the tool that allows us to place our concerns in the hand of the divine.
