89 Verbs to Use for the Word divinity

To her, unlike Rome, absolute Truth has not been revealed; she is so little sure of anything that she will condemn no man, no, not one of her officers, though he deny the divinity of Christ.

Would that we knew this heroine upon whom he represents the divinities as bestowing gifts!

Even by starlight, had Donnegan been there to look, he would have seen the divinity which comes in the face of a woman when she loves.

'Happy art thou, my son, to know only the pastoral divinities.'

But, upon due consideration, that Percy is a clergyman, it was agreed that Percy should teach practical divinity and British antiquities; Dr. Johnson himself, logick, metaphysicks, and scholastick divinity.

The Church humbly adores the DIVINITY as exhibited in the holy Scriptures.

He still dreaded an oath, and reverenced the divinity of innocence.

If we forget that only through his humanity can we approach his divinity, we shall soon forget likewise that his mother is blessed among women.

They were apparently intended to appease the presiding divinity by gratifying her passion for stamping things.

All this was not beheld by the inhabitants without the utmost astonishment, which incited them to come down in crowds to the coast, with no other view, as it appeared, than to worship the new divinities that had condescended to touch upon their country.

Shelley had replaced faith by reason, but I still suffered: but here was a new creed which proclaimed the divinity of the body, and for a long time the reconstruction of all my theories of life on a purely pagan basis occupied my whole attention.

Man, when free, wants no other divinity than himself.

There are two senses in which we can understand an evolution of this idea of God; first, as Mr. Tylor understands it, in the sense of a development by accretion from a simple germ, from the idea of a phantasm nowise a god, to that of a spirit still lacking divinity, thence to that of a Supreme Spirit in whom first the essential definition of God is somewhat fulfilled.

They would else have given us, in verse and in marble, another divinity in their glorious Pantheona god less drowsy than Morpheus and Somnus, less riotous than Bacchus, less radiant than Apollo, but with something of the spirit of each: a figure, beautiful with youth, every muscle in perfect repose, and the vague expression of dreams in his half-closed eyes.

"Why, then," He says, "do you accuse Me of blasphemy because I claim divinity?"

There is no glory around the head; but the spirit which shines from those features, marks his divinity.

If there be a difference between the Councils of Nicea and Ariminum, it perhaps consists in this;that the Nicene was the more anxious to assert the equal Divinity in the Filial subordination; the Ariminian to maintain the Filial subordination in the equal Divinity.

Wilkinson enumerates seventy-three principal divinities, and Birch sixty-three; but there were some hundreds of lesser gods, discharging peculiar functions and presiding over different localities.

I was in so deplorable a condition of blindness and ignorance, that sometimes I thought there was no God, but that he was an imaginary being; and sometimes confounding him with the works of his almighty hands, I attributed divinity to the material world.

The females who personated the new divinity were usually selected from amongst those who "might make sectaries of whom they bid but follow," but who were more conspicuous for beauty than any other celestial attribute.

It would have been perfectly natural for the prehistoric potters to have desired to placate the presiding divinity, not so much perhaps out of gratitude for the clay as to avert his displeasure and fend off bad luck in baking pottery.

why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

What, then, must the Eternal Godthe King of heaventhink of you, who refuse to render to his only begotten Son, the honor and the worship that he claims for him?" This had such an effect upon the emperor that he changed his views on this subject, and ever afterwards took part with those who acknowledged the divinity of Christ, and honored the Son, even as they honored the Father.

THE PINEAPPLE IN HEATHENDOM.Heathen nations invented protective divinities for their orchards (such as Pomona, Vertumnus, Priapus, &c.), and benevolent patrons for their fruits: thus, the olive-tree grew under the auspices of Minerva; the Muses cherished the palm-tree, Bacchus the fig and grape, and the pine and its cone were consecrated to the great Cyble.

As a last resort, it is forced to find divinity in the mire.

89 Verbs to Use for the Word  divinity