Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the belief in divine providence and the certainty of God's plans.
Abraham Clark expresses a deep faith in the sovereignty of God over human affairs. He acknowledges that ultimately, our lives and destinies are in God's hands, suggesting both a sense of security and helplessness regarding our outcomes. This perspective promotes a trust in divine wisdom and the inevitability of God's will, emphasizing that human efforts are subordinate to divine intentions.
In practice
During a sermon, a pastor might reference this quote to illustrate the importance of faith in God's plan.
There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.
There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.
She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.
One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
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