gift from on high

Example Sentences

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This was true democracy at work — democracy not as a gift from on high, or a division of spoils between interest groups, but rather democracy that was earned, the work of everybody.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2021

Dominic Cooper’s Jesse Custer is a superhero for our times, a grimy lowlife turned man of God who suddenly finds himself empowered to shake up his poverty-stricken neighbourhood with a gift from on high.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017

How do blind men really feel, and through what gift from on high does that peculiar smile come, which their faces always show?

From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George

I have to be grateful for the love which you grant me, and I am grateful for it, as for a sweet gift from on high.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich