The quality of being divine

Usage examples of divinity.

No Five Points, no Athanasian Creed, no Thirty-nine Articles, separate the men and women of our way of thinking from humanity or from Divinity.

Researchers in the early part of this century found evidence that she had once been the most important of the Bellacoola divinities, but in recent times, information about her has become scantier, and prayers were addressed to her less and less often.

It hath the sun above that is the Spirit, and above it blows the air of its divinity.

This teaching, called Brahmoism, from Brahma, the purest and highest of Hindoo divinities, is, under another form, the Neo-Platonism of the Greeks, or the Soofeeism of the Persians.

As soon as their divinity was established by law, it sank into oblivion, without contributing either to their own fame, or to the dignity of succeeding princes.

But the spiritual character of their knowledge of God was gradually obscured, God was dragged into the sphere of sense and lower divinities were associated with Him,--a downward development which absolutely contradicts the Darwinian hypothesis.

God which Sade conceives for himself is, therefore, of a criminal divinity who oppresses and denies mankind.

He is talking of large, black old books of divinity, and of their successors, tiny books, Elzevirs perhaps.

If the Deity issues a command, expresses His will, as ancient history tells us, the expression of that will is independent of time and is not caused by anything, for the Divinity is not controlled by an event.

It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its divinity, many of the votaries, perhaps the greatest number, will still seek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect being, but either by frivolous observances, by intemperate zeal, by rapturous extasies, or by the belief of mysterious and absurd opinions.

Gods in Heaven adore Thee, the Gods in the shades below do Thee homage, the stars obey Thee, the Divinities rejoice in Thee, the elements and the revolving seasons serve Thee!

Varro tells us that the great Divinities adored at Samothrace were the Heavens and the Earth, considered as First Causes or Primal Gods, and as male and female agents, one bearing to the other the relations that the Soul and Principle of Movement bear to the body or the matter that receives them.

The poets inspired by the Divinity, the wisest philosophers, all the theologians, the chiefs of the initiations and Mysteries, even the gods uttering their oracles, have borrowed the figurative language of allegory.

Shauskha An Ishtar-like Hurrian divinity, whose winged beauty seduced even monsters.

Discourse on American Religions, 39 Juripari, 61 Killistenoes, 270 Kittanitowit, 58, 60 Ku, a name of divinity, 46, 47 Kukulcan, god of air, 118 Languages of America, 7 esoteric of priests, 284 Lenni Lenape, 26, 96, 161, 231 Light, universal symbol of divinity, 173 Lightning, the, 112 seq.