Sentences with phrase «by divine intention»

The story of Jacob is supported only by divine grace, only by divine intention and purpose.

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But it is chiefly concerned to tell men what they may become in Christ, what indeed they already are in the divine intention: sons of God, made in his image, fallen into sin by their willfulness, and now by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ able to be conformed to his likeness, the evil and the sin which they know so well being done away through God's forgiving love shed abroad through him.

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.

Whether this activity is inexorable in its accomplishment of the divine intention or whether it can be thwarted by human activity is open to argument.

It is unfortunately true that, contrary to his intention, that newspaper article has been understood by many in the US to be directly supportive of the so - called «intelligent design» hypothesis, which invokes divine design through the detection of instances of supposedly irreducible complexity (i.e. un-evolvable organisms).

The intention of divine purpose and meaning was frustrated by pride, by the rejection of given order.

Jesus manifests the divine power by subsuming his will to God's, and at the same time God acted through Jesus to manifest God's will and bring about God's intentions.

The enjoyment of being occurs when man responds in gratitude and trust to God and by reproducing in his relations with his human companions the quality and intention of the divine love.

He remains always God, yet the accomplishments of the created order are received by him into his own life, and to them he responds by making use of them for the furthering of his divine intention.

If God is really actively engaged with and in the world, adapting the divine intention to it, taking into the divine life what occurs there, and hence seriously affected by it quite as much as sustaining it creatively and working within it to accomplish an enduring purpose, then indeed God must be understood in a fashion that is most suitably symbolized by what we know of relationship at the human level — granted, of course, that we say this with an O altitudo, to use Sir Thomas Browne's phrase.

And, by a significant transference of the idea of predestination to another category of explanation, Jesus was sometimes thought of as actually pre ~ existent: not merely as having existed, as it were, in the foreknowledge and intention of God, but as a divine or heavenly being who had existed in another dimension before his human birth.

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

In so doing, these agents will not only fulfil their own possibility; they will also bring enrichment to the divine life — not that God will become any more God than before, but that by virtue of the divine receptivity of what is accomplished in the creation there will be further opportunities for more adequate and complete expression of the divine intention or purpose which is at work in the whole enterprise.

He writes as though he knew that God never bends physical fact into special conformity with divine intention; the Word never becomes flesh by making physical fact as immediately pliable to his expression as spoken symbols are.

While the division of views in the Supreme Court in Edwards might create difficulty in addressing the question of how that intention is to be divined the soundness of introducing a requirement in dismissal cases for an express contractual agreement permitting common law damages, as envisaged by Lords Dyson, Wilson and Mance was, at the very least doubted by Lords Phillips, Kerr and Walker and Lady Hale.

If liberty and life are considered «divine rights,» then why not ensure these are no longer threatened by the liberalization of laws that permit assault weapons in the public realm and into the hands of those with malicious intentions.