Sentence examples for divine event from inspiring English sources

If power is transferred to a new divinely-mandated ruler, then a divine event is needed that canonizes the shift from Il to Un.

To drive this point home, Steinberg had to prove that during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance the word "resurrection" could be used as a double entendre, connoting both the divine event and the humble mortal fact of an erection.

"Mary's maternity," former Pope Benedict has explained, "is at one and the same time a human and a divine event...

But he added: "We openly acknowledge that in nearly 200 years of church history – along with an uninterrupted line of inspired, honourable and divine events – there have been some things said and done that could cause people to question".

"We openly acknowledge that in nearly 200 years of church history — along with an uninterrupted line of inspired, honorable and divine events — there have been some things said and done that could cause people to question," Mr. Uchtdorf said, speaking to 20,000 Mormons gathered for the 183rd semiannual general conference in Salt Lake City, and millions more watching telecasts and over the Internet.

They contain seemingly contradictory ideas, each expressing a particular perspective on divine events.

-- from: Glenn Beck Goes Messianic at America's Divine Destiny Event Before 2,500 Screaming Fans (Alternet).

On the Thursday night before his Saturday bar mitzvah at the Lincoln Memorial, Beck walked around the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in anticipation of a "Divine Destiny" event he would host the next night.

Newton was characteristically thorough: he learned Hebrew, and studied Kabbalism and the Talmud in order to divine future events.

So, it's time to stop trying to divine which events NBC could have carried in prime time or to excoriate the network for not breaking into the taped opening ceremony with word that Nancy Johnson of the United States had won a shooting gold medal.

These faculties firstly allow the prophet to acquire theoretical knowledge instantly without learning, secondly represent this knowledge through symbols and parables as well as divine future events, and thirdly to bring about effects outside of his body such as rain or earthquakes.