Sentence examples for plan of providence from inspiring English sources

It is an especially useful notion for theodicy, in that when evil is defeated, the usual objections to the presence of evil in the plan of providence are turned aside.

The position outlined above depends heavily on the idea that in the plan of providence moral evil is defeated, rather than simply being outweighed by some good to which it is a means.

The special design of providence in this country seems to be now over.

Lipsius was a Christian thinker, as well as a Stoic one, and in this capacity he drew on Aristotle's De generatione animalium (769a-773a) to explain the existence of evil in a world created by a supremely benevolent God: deformed creatures and monstrosities which seem to be contrary to nature are actually in accordance with the overall plan of nature and divine providence (Physiologia I.13).

They "should be good citizens in order to be good men" (De constantia 1.12) and, as such, yield to God's plan for mankind and to the immutable power of providence.

Overcome by the vast suffering and the innumerable lives of both human beings and animals lost in the "struggle for existence," he violently rejected as repugnant the idea of providence, that is, the idea that there is a divine plan for the moral improvement of individuals and reward for those that are good.

13 1 THE PRINCE OF PROVIDENCE, by Mike Stanton.

Or maybe it was simply a matter of providence.

It is an act of "providence," Father Wallner said.

At U.S.C., it is a sign of providence.

His life was austere, disciplined and watchful of the hand of providence.