Sentence examples for divine abilities from inspiring English sources

In the 18th century, Romantics gave genius its modern meaning: Someone with special, almost divine abilities.

In the 21st century, those who ride the train of progress will acquire divine abilities of creation and destruction, while those left behind will face extinction".

Whether out of a desire to consider the far ends of risk or out of transhumanist longings, he often ascribes nearly divine abilities to machines, as if to ask: Can a digital god really be contained?

People exercise divine abilities by tapping into their higher consciousness.

And so our souls made a fateful decision: to relinquish our inherent divine abilities to manifest instantaneously and to take form in a material world that was bound by limitation.

Todd Solondz is a film-maker who's built his entire career on a divine ability to severely divide audiences – and really anger his dissenters.

Rho was a holy Paladin who used heavy weaponry and a divine ability to heal.

I now hold the divine ability to deal with chaotic children without ever having owned one.

I have always been curious as to how our divine ability to create thought relates to our human ability to create in the external world.

We have the divine ability to touch, see, feel, smell, yet we choose to stare at a screen instead of taking in the true beauty that surrounds us.

Graeber and Sahlins draw a helpful distinction between, on the one hand, divine kingship as "the ability to act as if one were a god... to rain favor, or destruction, with arbitrariness and impunity," and, on the other hand, sacred kingship which is "to be set apart" for the sake of "confining, controlling, and limiting" unaccountable divine power (pp. 7-8).