divine purpose
God's plan unfolds
Divine purpose is the belief that a higher power—God, the universe, fate—has a specific plan or intention for someone's life or for existence itself.
The phrase appears in religious contexts but also in secular spirituality: She felt called to medicine, as if it were her divine purpose.
Finding one's divine purpose implies discovering meaning that transcends personal ambition.
- callingStrongly felt purpose
- teleologyStudy of purpose in nature
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- meant to bePredetermined by fate
- missionPurpose-driven task
providence · vocation · cross · karma · synchronicity · grace · prophecy · path · greater good · telos · stewardship · salvation · covenant · logos · omniscience · heaven · transcendence · eschatology
- vocationcalling, vocation, priesthood, religious life, mission
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- missionsmissionary work, foreign missions, mission trips, mission work, mission stations
- spiritual selfspiritual identity, inner life, soul-searching, introspection, self-examination
- creation debatecreationism, intelligent design, creation science, special creation, young earth
- MessianismMessiah, anointed one, chosen one, promised one, Christ
divine purposerandom chance
Uncontrolled probability
blind chance · accident · happenstance · coincidence · randomness
divine purposemeaninglessness
Lack of significance
absurdity · nihilism · existential void · cosmic indifference · pointlessness
divine purposechaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · entropy · natural selection · random mutation · primordial chaos