Sentences with phrase «divine intention»

My own inclination is to be more modest about knowing the course of divine intention.

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

And human reasoning can even trump divine intention.

If anything other than the me I know is the object of God's concern, if anything other than the person is the object of divine intention, then we are speaking of inanities or mysteries beyond knowing, and entertaining arguments that have no real focus in experience.

God does not contradict the divine self, is true to the divine intention, loyal to the divine character, acting always in ways that are congruous with the divine final goal of the rule of love.

For human beings to enact the divine intention for their existence in this sense is not for them to relinquish their human dignity.

The teaching of Jesus on marriage and divorce is demanding; it is an invitation to recover the divine intention for human relationships.

Response on the human side would be shown by increasing moral and spiritual discernment, obedience to the divine will, and dedication to the divine intention; but God would remain God and the personhood would remain entirely human.

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.

This God is active within the creation, enabling its response to the divine intention — here is the divine immanence.

The achievement of the divine intention is inevitable; yet men are called upon to «make the effort» on which depends the future of Western civilization.17 If men must be rallied to «make an effort» in our historical period, an effort which they may fail to make, why may it not be so in every historical period?

That the fall of a nation is on the same level as the withering of a fig tree — functioning merely as a sign of the divine intentions — makes arbitrary the social quality of human 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.

The limits set are those given by the divine intention for fulfillment or «satisfaction», by the possibilities which at any given moment are available for use in this way, by the «decision» of each actual entity, and by the finitude of creativity itself which will permit only specific creaturely occasions to emerge.

The divine intention was, and is, that we would all be actualised as distinct, but perfectly sharing the whole universe as one immortal living body.

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.

Each of us is alienated to some degree from his or her own proper destiny in the divine intention.

Kaufman sees the history of Israel and the life of Christ as special sub-actions decisively expressing the divine intention.12

alberto — nearly all things once attributed to divine intention have been determined to be of natural origin.

Now Moses is not at all disposed to question the validity of the divine intention, but he has immediate and vigorous objections to make concerning the choice of personnel, namely himself.

It is designed for our salvation and fulfillment, in order that we might experience the full abundance that is the divine intention for our lives.

John presents Jesus as the incarnate Way, the divine intention for life demonstrated in human form.

In this section of his Gospel, John presents Jesus as the incarnate Way, the divine intention for life demonstrated in human form.

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.

I would pay money to see your God of natural childbirth refute that statistic, or you explain to me how it is «skewed» and why exactly we should have left everything to divine intentions that robbed so many women in the past of their life?

In learning words from her, they were clearly trying to divine her intentions: What was this strange graduate student trying to do?

Most people would go for the first option — unless their brains are impaired in regions key to feeling emotion or divining the intentions of others.

So if you think that you can divine the intentions, identity and affiliations of the hacker from the thing hacked, you need to think again.