Sentences with phrase «miraculous intervention»

No doubt many of the phenomena of nature, once regarded as miraculous interventions, are now understood as regular parts of the cosmic order.

I have experienced miraculous intervention of the spirit.

Some Christians believe that God operates primarily by miraculous intervention in nature rather than in its regularities.

Some, who smell a rat at any possibility of miraculous intervention in human affairs, claim that Saul was never converted but merely changed sides.

It must be addressed as a result of the fall, like Cancer, which is treated though God's working through human agents and rarely through miraculous intervention.

What all these self - serving proclamations of miraculous intervention always ignore is the downside of the incidents.

This attitude, assuming the ordered and discoverable nature of the world also allowed for God's extraordinaryor miraculous intervention in history.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

While we feel the best interests of the child in question are paramount, the interests of society, including the other children who might have used this valuable resource, can not be ignored, especially when non-medically indicated painful and futile therapies are continued on children due to the expectation of miraculous intervention.

What is hoped for is a miraculous intervention.

The road to Damascus may offer a pilgrim sudden and miraculous intervention, but faith provides no shortcuts on the road to Parnassus.

Now, as the result of a life issue combined with the miraculous intervention of Christ I had an encounter with God (real or imagined probably would not have mattered) that leads me to find the goodness and holiness of God.

Apocalyptic has abandoned hope, and looks for divine, miraculous intervention.

Listen, love and pray trusting in The Lord for the opportunities and changes of His miraculous interventions.

Madden and Hare suggest that «God could mitigate a particularly terrible result in a stop - gap fashion by a miraculous intervention» (ECG 75).

This leads secondly to the fact that secular man neither expects nor believes in the miraculous intervention by God in the times of his desperate need.

To interpret the Exodus by just «explaining away» God's miraculous intervention is to replace a grand example of God's caring for Israel with a plain old lucky escape, and to replace one of the central formative events of Judaism with an insignificant incident.

Otherwise, the escapism is the same: Through the miraculous intervention of outside forces (a Middle Eastern sheik, or in this case mistaken identity), they are whisked off in a private jet and find themselves pampered in a luxurious hotel suite, gowned in haute couture, served 30 - pound lobsters and courted by handsome young guys.