Sentences with phrase «directly willed»

Our individual sufferings are never directly willed or caused by this God of Adventure.

Many events occur, caused by the conditions of God's world, which we must believe are not directly willed or purposed by God.

Even if the faith I appropriate were somehow brand new, never before conceived, the product of no apparent community save my own internal dialogue with myself, if I really believed it to be true I would perforce share it with others; and thus, whether I directly willed it or not, a new community would be created around it.

Not exact matches

Yet it is not willed by God, either directly or permissively, as if things might have been otherwise, but God allows evil to happen.

Since this is a generation that willed itself from childhood directly into adulthood, it has still its adolescence to go through — for a man can never skip adolescence, he can only postpone it.