Expressions
Various religions have common expressions relating to the will of God.
- "God willing" is an English expression often used to indicate that the speaker hopes that his or her actions are those that are willed by their God (or were originally willed by their God in the creation of the universe), or that it is in accordance with God's will that some desired event comes will come to pass, or that some negative event will not come to pass.
- "Insha'Allah" - an Arab-Islamic expression meaning "God willing".
- Deus vult - A Latin-Christian expression meaning "God wills it", canonically expressed at the outset of the first crusade.
- Masha'Allah, - an Arab-Islamic expression meaning "God has willed it".
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Famous quotes containing the word expressions:
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
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“Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)