Sentence:  Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that <WSD>God</WSD> `` gives to both North and South this terrible war , as the woe due to those by whom the offense came '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions