Alice Waters

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

American Chef

Jim Elliot

Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.

American Clergyman

L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

Adoniram Judson

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

John Nelson Darby

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

English Clergyman

Albert Barnes

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

American Theologian

William Ames

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

English Philosopher

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

Pakistani Politician

John Woolman

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Patrice Motsepe

You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.

South African Businessman

Dispensation often means a special exception is granted by someone in authority.

Special Permission

The allowance is usually temporary, for a specific reason.

Temporary Relaxation

Used in formal contexts or official matters; not for casual situations.

Formal Context

In religion, it describes a period where certain spiritual rules apply.

Religious Practices

It can refer to a divine order or administration of a particular epoch in scriptures.

Theological Concept

It implies an organized plan for giving out goods or services.

Organized Distribution

Dispensation involves distributing to a group or public, not individual sharing.

Not Personal

The word carries no positive or negative connotations by itself.

Neutral Tone

 one thing that's true about it is that it doesn't do it with any special physics, there's no special dispensation, no miracles involved. It does it simply with three things that we have here in abundance. One of them is matter,