Sentence examples for bring divine from inspiring English sources

Constantine's chief concern was that a divided church would offend the Christian God and so bring divine vengeance upon the Roman Empire and Constantine himself.

Humans had free will to ignore divine guidance and the behavior required by maat, but by doing so they could bring divine punishment upon themselves.

Iconoclasm was supposed to bring divine favour and assure military victory, but neither the army's weaknesses nor the reported treachery of Boiditzes could detract from the fact that this was "a humiliating disaster to match the worst defeats of any iconophile emperor" (Whittow), comparable in recent memory only to the crushing defeat suffered by Nikephoros I (r. 802 811) at Pliska.

He has brought divine office down to earth with a revolution in tone.

A practitioner of Bhankti yoga, the devotional limb of mystical Hinduism, he has fashioned himself into a "kirtan wallah," or traveling singer, bringing divine praises to gatherings nationwide.

DURING the plague of 1665, Londoners sought to avoid infection by sniffing flowers and herbs, clearing deadly "miasmas" with smoke, killing cats and praying for neighbours whose sins were thought to have brought divine wrath.

Whatever brings a poet to write verse also brings divine wisdom out of priestesses; and Plato regularly defers to the authority of oracles.

We can show Kentucky and the world what Hindu values are and bring the divine, godly qualities to the forefront.

The legend of the place is as follows: at the end of Satya Yuga (the first in the cycle of four aeons; the present one is the fourth aeon), devotees of Varaha requested him to stay on earth, so Varaha ordered his mount Garuda to bring his divine garden Kridachala from his abode Vaikuntha to Venkata hills, Tirumala.

It may have as its aim the union of the self with fellow worshippers and with the divine, as an act that brings the divine powers effectively into the life of the worshipper for that time and for coming days.

An early review came from the poet Arthur Symons, who wrote: "All the force of the muscle palpitates in this strenuous flesh, the whole splendour of her sex, unveiled, palpitates in the air, the messenger of the gods, bringing some divine message, pauses in flight, an embodied inspiration".