Sentence examples for purposeful god from inspiring English sources

She could tell herself that the illusion was purposeful: God showing her an image of the young man, the suicide, trapped in his bitter purgatory.

The book of insolence finds its targets in such concepts as a purposeful God, a benevolent and orderly universe, human altruism, the existence of free will.

The speeches evoke Job's trust in the purposeful activity of God in the affairs of the world, even though God's ways with man remain mysterious and inscrutable.

The President's belief was fortified by the Republican sweep in the 2002 congressional elections; Bush saw the victory as a purposeful message from God that "he's the man," the former official said.

This historically evolving interaction has contributed to the development of a naturalistic worldview that renounces the necessity of a transcendent god and of purposeful design.

Providence splits the difference between the accidents of fortune and purposeful design; it says that God is on your side without having the bad manners to pronounce His name.

Sin is regarded in Judaism and Christianity as the deliberate and purposeful violation of the will of God.

Teleological biases differ from those reasoning biases that refer explicitly to the intentions of the organism (e.g., 'the finches wanted bigger beaks, so they exercised them') or to a purposeful and intelligent external agent (e.g., 'God made it that way') (Evans et al. 2012).

I was surrounded by love, taught that I am a child of God, that I have a divine purpose — my whole life I'd felt secure, fulfilled, purposeful and connected.

In turn, God rewarded him with 95 years of a robust, purposeful life.

This article applies only to a conventional, personal God and presupposes God's existence is necessary and purposeful.