Bible Dictionary: Being Lucky

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Ephesians 1:11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:
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Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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Matthew 5:45
That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
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Library

Whether There be Such a Thing as Fate?
... Now it happens sometimes that something is lucky or chance-like as compared to ... 115],
A[6]) that what is accidental, is properly speaking neither a being, nor a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there be such a.htm

Letter Xl. To Marcella.
... cut away the dead flesh of another man with merciless knives without being moved
by ... you really think yourself a pretty fellow just because you have a lucky name ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xl to marcella.htm

Significance of Compulsory Service.
... of non-compliance will consist in my being brought to judgment for refusing to perform
my duties to the state, and if I am lucky, being acquitted or, as is ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter vii significance of compulsory.htm

And it Should be Remarked in Passing that this Force Upon a Man to ...
... She has to be an optimist to the morbid husband, a salutary pessimist to the
happy-go-lucky husband. She has to prevent the Quixote from being put upon, and ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 18 and it should.htm

Essay i. Fortuna Plerumque Est Veluti Galaxia Quarundam Obscurarum ...
... to the more or less serious mood or habit of our mind we exclaim, how lucky! ... any
advantage or injury, and are at the same time incapable of being calculated or ...
/.../confessions of an inquiring spirit etc/essay i fortuna plerumque est.htm

Great Surprises.
... eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master." They were lucky
to be let off so easily, and they owed their lives to there being a Saint ...
/.../the village pulpit volume ii trinity to advent/xxxviii great surprises.htm

Letter xi. --To Libanius.
... the character of the whole year, they devote themselves to forecasting lucky accidents,
gladness ... 2198] , in the eyes of those that have sense, being the fairest ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/letter xi to libanius.htm

The Sinister Deities Preside Over the Regions on the Left Hand ...
... very much the same, but to our own place and position, we being [4104] so ... they have
ordained that these should be fortunate, and ever accompanied by lucky omens ...
/.../5 the sinister deities preside.htm

Faith in General.
... dogmatism, but shall diligently seek to give an exposition of the being of faith ...
which is the light-hearted expression of cheerfulness; or the lucky guessing at ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxxiv faith in general.htm

To the Rev. A. Brandram
... scarcely possible to travel a league from its gates without being stript naked ... be
an exceedingly favourable specimen of typography and paper: and lucky it is ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev a brandram 34.htm