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by divine means
the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal existence
How To Use divinely In A Sentence
- Now obedience to a superior is due in accordance with the divinely established order of things, as shown above A. 1, and therefore it is a good, since good consists in mode, species, and order, as Augustine states.6 Again, this act has a special aspect of praiseworthiness by reason of its object. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Now, I'm very soft-hearted and happen to know that my meat appears by special act of creation divinely shrink-wrapped on Tesco shelves.
- And as for those who were not themselves divinely inspired, or wherein those that were so did not act by immediate inspiration, they proved the truth of what they delivered by its consonancy unto the Scriptures already written, referring the minds and consciences of men unto them for their ultimate satisfaction, Acts xviii. 28, xxviii. Pneumatologia
- For we are not _mere_ human: we, too, are divine; and there is no such obliterator of the divine as the human that acts undivinely. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
- Empedocles, and others, to prove there must be something self-existent and eternal, or in other words, "that nothing which once was not can ever of itself come into being," he uses it to disprove a divine creation, and even presents the maxim in an altered form -- viz., "nothing is ever _divinely_ generated from nothing;" [787] and he thence concludes that the world was by no means made for us by _divine_ power. [ Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
- When read as a literary whole, Genesis 1-2 posits a world that is divinely beneficent and bountiful, in no need of human genius to improve or control it.
- Using you as akey messenger forinspiring the practice of noble ideals would surely be divinely ironic. God To Don Imus: Can You Hear Me Now?
- These secular conditions, Bushman suggests, can be understood in two ways: for nonbelievers they help to explain Mormonism's "origins," a word Bushman eschews for the more neutral "beginnings"; for Mormons they can be studied as divinely contrived preparations for the dawning of a new era. Secrets of the Mormons
- If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
- All these ranked, however, not as divinely-inspired knowledge, or things "heard from God" (_sruti_), like the Vedas and Brahmanas, but only as sacred traditions -- _smriti_, literally "The things _remembered_. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01