Sentence examples for operation of divine from inspiring English sources

The story is told as a testimony to the operation of divine providence: "... you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good......

According to Waugh, a convert to Roman Catholicism, the novel was intended to show "the operation of divine grace" in the affairs of a particular group of people.

Brideshead Revisited is thinly veiled nostalgic autobiography – at its best – not "the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters", as Waugh himself intoned in the novel's preface.

On both the 'special knowledge' and the 'belief' models, faith is intrinsically linked to theological content indeed to orthodox theological content, specifiable as one unified set of doctrines conveyed to receptive human minds by the operation of divine grace.

So it looks like the operations of divine quirkiness will do their mysterious work.

This was part of why he saw his remarkably dull life as full of adventure – daily observation of his own inner experiences and the world around him took him near to ecstasy through fascination with the micromanaging operations of divine providence.

(He died as the full horror of the Second Vatican Council, with its abolition of the Latin or "Tridentine" mass, was becoming fully apparent to him. The recent rise of Josef Ratzinger might have struck him as another of the operations of divine grace).

Updike, who has found in Rabbit an indispensable, if unlikely, vehicle for his truest insights into the mysteries of manhood, the promise of American life and the operations of divine grace, could no more pass up the opportunity for a further Rabbit report than Rabbit himself could forgo a bowl of macadamia nuts.

Clarke concluded that the laws of nature do not describe the powers of matter, which is just dead mass constantly pushed around, but modalities of operation of the divine power.

The ridiculing of Pythagoras' claim to have recognized the soul of a departed friend in the voice of a barking dog (B7), together with the attacks on divination credited to Xenophanes in A52, reflect the broader denial of knowledge of divine attributes and operations set out in B34.

"Our ideas", says Philo, "reach no further than experience: We have no experience of divine attributes and operations: I need not conclude my syllogism: You can draw the inference yourself".