Providence, Divine

Cultural  

1. God, seen as providing for mankind, as the caring guide of human destiny.

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Example Sentences

At the less complicated end of the spectrum are British posy rings from the 16th and 17th centuries, the simplest of which are ornament-free gold bands with amorous inscriptions on the inside like “I Like My Choyse” and “Providence Divine Hath Made Thee Mine.”

From New York Times

Oh Providence Divine! she cried, how minute is the perfection, yet how grand the harmony of thy works!

From Project Gutenberg

But if your providence divine For other ends design her, To obey your will at any time, I’m ready to resign her.”

From Project Gutenberg

“Providence” divine or human, prepense moral or spiritual “foresight,” was a thing in the excellence of which our prophet of divine instinct and inspired flesh could not consistently believe.

From Project Gutenberg

He learned the 13 points of the creed of the great 12th Century rabbi, Maimonides, the Jewish Aristotle: the belief in God's existence, in His unity, incorporeality, timelessness, and approachability through prayer; the belief in prophecy, in the superiority of Moses to all other prophets, in the revelation of the Law and its immutability, in Divine providence, Divine justice, the eventual coming of the Messiah; the belief in the resurrection and in everlasting life.

From Time Magazine Archive