Sentence examples for deity I from inspiring English sources
"Even if there is a Deity, I still like the idea / of a team of little fakes," declares another poem, thumbing through a mail-order catalogue of world mythologies.
"Where was the many-named larger-than-life deity I'd expected?" "In the Shadow of the Banyan," Vaddey Ratner's first novel, tells the story of Raami's struggle to survive under the Khmer Rouge.
If, in the end, you reject Christianity altogether, and even the concept of a deity, I don't blame you.
Other days, I clenched my fist in rage, shouting at a deity I didn't believe in, imploring him or her to do the deed for me in the way of a massive heart attack or out-of-control New York City bus.
The deity "I Ratu Sakti Bujangga Luwih" mentioned in the Rajapurana Batur is today still the major deity in Pura Jati.
17 The sixth category consists of a single office called Jero Petinggi; he is associated with the deity I Ratu Ayu Karang Buncing (The Deity of the Twins of Opposite Sex).
After entering a doorway flanked by sculptures of deities, I walked down a gloomy hallway along creaking floorboards and saw three lamas in red robes sitting on cushions along one side of the main chamber.
Capitalist society that we are, our faith in money might trump ours of religious deities ("I remember a professor of the history of religion once saying that global confidence in the dollar is the greatest example of collective faith in an abstract symbol in human history," writes Adam Davidson in the Times).
23 In the pre-Batur Temple era both 'temples' and their major deities, I Ratu Sakti (or I Ratu Susunan Sakti) of Sinarata and I Ratu Bujangga Sakti of Tampurhyang, used to cooperate in the ritual control of the water and the prosperity of the whole world, subject to the framework of the calendar.
Or, at least now—alone, suddenly, with the deity himself—I was feeling that I knew nothing.
I exorcised my rage at a deity that I believed violated my faith and deprived my lovely 16-year-old child of her life at the very flowering of it".
