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gift from on high

noun as in manna from heaven

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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.

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.

What I say about all the other creeds is correct—but I fail to understand that the Mormon religion is a dignified and inspired religion, a gift from on high, and if only I would carefully study the "Book of Mormon," I would realize my error!

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.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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