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divine law

NOUN
  1. a law that is believed to come directly from God

How To Use divine law In A Sentence

  • To protect man's rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
  • Soglia (Institut, Canon, II, 12) says "The law of tithes can never be abrogated by prescription or custom, if the ministers of the Church have no suitable and sufficient provision from other sources; because then the natural and divine law, which can neither be abrogated not antiquate, commands that the tithe be paid. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • Divine law is God's direct revelation to humankind through the Scriptures.
  • There is no divine law that says churches have to be undemocratic. Times, Sunday Times
  • He grants that St. Augustine would not term involuntary desires sin; then he adds, "We, on the contrary, deem it to be sin whenever a man feels any desires forbidden by Divine law -- and we assert the depravity to be sin which produces them" (Institutes, III, 2, 10). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Because the action of depraved (disordered) faculties and powers, would not, even in heaven itself, be conformed to the divine law, and _could not be acceptable to God_ In our natural state, moreover, we have not the _qualifications requisite for the enjoyment of heaven_, having no spiritual appetites. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
  • There is no divine law that says churches have to be undemocratic. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only immediate action was appropriate in abolishing a system which infringed divine law.
  • This social order is not only essential to the practice of every sound government: it has its origin in divine law.
  • That's bound to lead to new movements that emphasize self-transcendence but put little stock in divine law or revelation.
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