Sentence examples for providential from inspiring English sources

The pretence that everything has to be "fair" or "make sense", or that anything at all can be done about the present providential dispensation is the height of folly.

The 2008 vintage might have been spilled and lost but for a providential delay in the arrival of bottles from France, according to Patricio Eguiguren, Lapostolle's managing director.

Religious believers can retort by stressing his reverence for Jesus as a moral teacher and reformer, and his clear belief in a supreme or providential power.

HIS life, he said, had been a series of "providential accidents".

And as Simon Schama, a historian, pointed out four years ago in "The American Future" (Bodley Head), no one ever won an election by telling America that it had come to the end of its "providential allotment of inexhaustible plenty".

From "inside"—in other words, for somebody who sees the story as a providential unfolding of God's relations with man it is possible to construct a single narrative, albeit one that outsiders would find skewed.

Mr Taylor assumes he passed on a chilling exchange in which the author claims Mr Kissinger seemed to "tolerate a military takeover of the island by the Chinese".By then, however, Chiang had come to think that the loss of the mainland might have been "providential".

He asserted that Greek rationalism and Abrahamic spirituality had fused, a couple of centuries before the coming of Christ, in a providential synthesis.

That is, no Providential direction was required.

Christianity has never condemned material requests but rather has integrated them into a single providential order while at the same time subordinating them to spiritual values.

The poem's 10 cantos are a philosophical enactment of human, political, historical, and providential episodes, all of which question human nature, judgment, experience, and destiny.