God's providential care also extends to Ruth.

Humans live not for themselves but for God's providential plan.

Lemuel Haynes, a free black Presbyterian minister at the time of the Society's formation, argued passionately that God's providential plan would eventually defeat slavery and lead to the harmonious integration of the races as equals.

In the 6th century, the Consolation of Philosophy, by statesman and philosopher Boethius, written while he faced execution, reflected the Christian theology of casus, that the apparently random and often ruinous turns of Fortune's Wheel are in fact both inevitable and providential, that even the most coincidental events are part of God's hidden plan which one should not resist or try to change.

In contrast, Haynes continued to passionately argue along Calvinist lines that God's providential plan would defeat slavery and lead to the harmonious integration of the races as equals.

Studd believed that God's purposes could be confirmed through providential coincidences, such as a sum of money being donated spontaneously at just the right moment.

On this plan, the first part tells of God's rescue of his people from Egypt and their journey under his care to Sinai ( chapters 1-19 ) and the second tells of the covenant between them ( chapters 20-40 ).

Later in the journey the people began running low on supplies and again murmured against Moses and Aaron and said they would have preferred to die in Egypt, but God's provision of manna from the sky in the morning and quail in the evening took care of the situation.

# Simply because it is natural to care for oneself or to think that others may care for them, men should not think themselves safe from God's wrath.

En route, Henry Knox, again trying to reduce tensions, warned Preston, " For God's sake, take care of your men.

This passage indicates that the acceptable fast is not merely abstinence from food or water, but a decision to fully obey God's commands to care for the poor and oppressed.

Christians cannot claim such autonomy ; Christians acknowledge that they belong to God ... Christians yield their personal autonomy and accept a special obligation, as the first answer of the Heidelberg Catechism invites people to confess: ' I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ ' ( Heidelberg Catechism, Q & A 1 )... A decision to take one's own life thus appears to be a denial that one belongs to God ./ A second conviction is that God does not abandon people in times of suffering ... Christians express their faith in God's love by trusting in God's care for them.

Many take the view that pollution is an insult to the created world, and it is considered immoral to put commercial concerns before care for God's creation.

Colson, however, came alongside the creation care movement when endorsing Christian environmentalist author Nancy Sleeth ’ s Go Green, Save Green: A Simple Guide to Saving Time, Money, and God's Green Earth.

One of the foremost modern Thomists, Dominican father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, wrote a study of providence entitled " Providence: God's loving care for man and the need for confidence in Almighty God.

The Gospel of John focuses on God's glory in his use of light imagery and in his presentation of the Cross as a moment of exaltation ; he also sees the Cross as the example of agape love, a love which is not so much an emotion as a willingness to serve and care for others.

The basic premise of the Purpose Driven paradigm is for a pastor to recognize and be obedient to God's purposes for his people and his church and organize around developing these characteristics into the lives of people within his care.

The Evangelical Climate Initiative argues that human-induced climate change will have severe consequences and impact the poor the hardest, and that God's mandate to Adam to care for the Garden of Eden also applies to evangelicals today, and that it is therefore a moral obligation to work to mitigate climate impacts and support communities in adapting to change.

In summary, common grace is seen in God's continuing care for his creation, his restraining human society from becoming altogether intolerable and ungovernable, his making it possible for mankind to live together in a generally orderly and cooperative manner, and maintaining man's conscious sense of basic right and wrong behavior.

i ) Atma-nikshepa or nyAsa-placing oneself completely and directly under God's care.

You love this village and these stinking brown people because they're God's creatures, too.

From that time to this my religious concern is that I might give effective help to the bringing in of God's kingdom on earth.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

I mean such concepts as the presence of the supernatural in human affairs, the sacraments of grace and divine retribution, the idea of preordainment ( the oracle over Oedipus, the prophecy of the witches to Macbeth, or God's covenant with His people in Athalie ).

We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness.

It will do no good to seek God's forgiveness until we have forgiven those who have done us wrong.

Then, Jesus indicated that God's forgiveness is unlimited.

When a person meets God's requirements for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven.

God's mercy and patience will last forever.

Forgiveness implies more than a person wanting his past sins covered by God's love.

We press him to conform to our comfortable conceptions and not to bruise our satisfactions with his word, and God's.

We expect bestowal of God's love through him.

When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.

therefore, nothing but good could happen to him, even in God's wrathful storms.

He sat beside Kate's bed with the others throughout the morning, talking, talking of God's will, while Kate lay staring angrily at him.

We have only to compare the liberty and high standard of living we enjoy in this great country with the oppression and frugality of other nations to realize with humble gratitude that God's Providence has been with us since the very beginning of our country.

Moreland fixed us each another drink, and said, `` For God's sake, tell me something truly amusing ''.

With another sudden change of mood, he is again calm and protective, exhorting her to trust and obey him as God's spokesman -- and the chromatic scale descends in ominous contradiction.

This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.

`` Phil, for God's sake, go away.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

But, as Scripture everywhere reminds us, God does have need of his creatures, and the church, a fortiori, can ill afford to do without the talents with which the world, by God's providence, presents it.

From God's Will and Wisdom, and from virgin earth.

If it was, then it must have been God's intention to translate him at a certain point from time to eternity.

As a short, possibly not the best method, I looked up `` Word '' in the Concordance and noted that the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal message to man.