NOUN
- the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
How To Use Supreme Being In A Sentence
- SCORPIO: While you are familiar with the lesson of the unfortunate Chris Farley (as shown below), it would be good for you to contemplate the purpose of the Supreme Being in gifting you with wealth, power, influence, and a dynamic sex life. Archive 2007-10-01
- They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
- But there is some confusion in its use, for it is applied not only to the supreme being but to a double incarnation of him called Nara-Nârâyaṇa, and images of the pair may still be seen in Vishnuite temples. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
- For him it was a means of revealing the divine principle and concretizing a personal vision of the Supreme Being that had been vouchsafed to him.
- Supposing, just for a second, that we take these metaphors literally; what we would basically be saying is that God -- that Supreme Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient -- is the real evil, while Lucifer and Christ were both good guys, both trying but failing to wake humanity up to its daimonic -- which is to say divine -- potential. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE
- Although he lacks the historical context to articulate Kant's Categorical Moral Imperative, he describes a Supreme Being for whom something akin to this axiom is the ultimate measure of a man, a God who believes that one's ethical duty is to acquire and exercise wisdom, to evaluate and constantly re-evaluate one's beliefs -- including what one's ethical duty is -- by applying the utmost objectivity to one's own preconceptions and prejudices. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO
- Most traditional African religions believe in one supreme being who acts through spirits and ancestors.
- For him it was a means of revealing the divine principle and concretizing a personal vision of the Supreme Being that had been vouchsafed to him.
- With that artless piety, which innocence only knows, she addressed the Supreme Being, and resigned herself to his care.
- The powers of technology harnessed with the power of the human mind fused into one supreme being capable of the impossible.
