Sebastian Faulks

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.

British Novelist

Meir Soloveichik

There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.

American Clergyman

Antoni Gaudi

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Spanish Architect

Use 'providential' when an event's timing seems perfect and unusually beneficial, as if by fate.

Timely Coincidence

It implies something good or fortunate happens, not something bad or unfortunate.

Positive Outcome

Stress that the event seems unplanned by humans; use 'providential' for lucky accidents, not intentional acts.

Not Deliberate

Use 'providential' in a religious context to express the belief in divine guidance or intervention.

Spiritual Nuance

It suggests more than luck; it hints at the will of a higher power or destiny at work.

Providential