Sentence examples for a supreme deity from inspiring English sources

In their ruling, they said religion should not be confined to faiths involving a "supreme deity".

Other religious practices are based on belief in a supreme deity who created the universe and in lesser deities and spirits.

I know myself enough to know that I can't fuse my intellectual knowledge with a blind faith in a supreme deity.

Most notable was the nearly universal importance attached to the Sun but without the notion of the Sun as a supreme deity.

Tian once indicated a supreme deity (though not an ultimate creator), which could be spoken of both in personal and in impersonal terms.

Whether that designated a supreme deity or simply one who might have been left out, Paul took the opportunity to teach them about "the God who made the world and everything in it, the Lord of heaven and earth".

In the religion founded by Zoroaster (c. 7th century bce), the ultimate ground of the universe was reduced to a single supreme deity, Ahura Mazdā, the "Wise Lord".

The traditional religion of the Oraon comprises the cult of a supreme god, Dharmes, the worship of ancestors, and the propitiation of numerous tutelary deities and spirits.

While a supreme god (called Olorun Olodumare in Yoruba, Chukwu in Igbo, Osalobua in Edo, and Abasi Ibom in Ibibio) is central to many of the traditional religions, the deity is worshipped through a number of intermediaries or lesser gods.

In 1919 Ngo Van Chieu, an administrator for the French in Indochina, received a communication from the supreme deity during a table-moving séance.

Fali believe in a very abstract supreme deity called Fao.