Sentence examples for Abode of God from inspiring English sources

The name Haryana, from Hari (the Hindu god Vishnu) and ayana (home), means "The Abode of God".

Heaven, in many religions, the abode of God or the gods, as well as of angels, deified humans, the blessed dead, and other celestial beings.

Geocentrism fit with several passages in the Bible, and with the church's view of the world more generally, which held that the Earth, as the abode of God's greatest creation, sat at the centre of everything.

Yes, Job curses the day he was born, and his wife tells him to curse God and die (Job 1-2), butherere is no account that either curse the heavens, the abode of God.

The residents of Sikkim have traditionally viewed the mountain as both a god and the abode of gods.

It is the abode of gods, and its foothills are the Himalayas, to the south of which extends Bhāratavarṣa ("Land of the Sons of Bharata"), the ancient name for India.

Often cultures have seen active volcanoes as the abode of gods - typically gods quick to anger.

The Kurma Purana goes on to state that after the encounter with the sages of the Deodar Forest, Bhikshatana continued to wander, visiting various countries of gods and demons before he finally reached the abode of the god Vishnu.

The Badrinath temple, located at an elevation of some 10,300 feet (3,100 metres) on the bank of Alaknanda River, is the abode of the god Vishnu; the temple's idol of Vishnu, made of black granite, is said to have been installed by the 8th-century philosopher Shankara.

The pilgrims were members of various groups making their way to Lake Manasarovar and Mt. Kailasa in the Tibetan Himalayas, sites sacred to Hindus as, respectively, the mythic source of the Ganges and the paradisiacal abode of the god Siva.

Kubera then settled on Gandhamandana mountain, near Mount Kailash — the cosmological abode of the god Shiva in the Himalayas.