Sentence examples for divine matters from inspiring English sources

Is it that they are beyond human ken? that they concern divine matters?

The stories of the difficulties encountered by Jesus, and the offenses he came to be accused of, indicate the kinds of restrictions to which the Jews were subjected with respect to religious observances and with respect to what could and could not be said about divine matters.

We have already seen that for Maimonides the highest perfection is intellectual and consists in ascertaining in divine matters everything that can be ascertained.

Two types of civil prudence — the first concerned with divine matters and the second with human affairs — are set out in the rest of Book IV.

In this sense, then, Lefèvre belongs to a natural theological tradition which sees the philosophical arts as studying the traces of the divine in the natural world, and then as steps leading upward to divine matters, as he put it in his side-by-side edition of the medieval and humanist translations of Euclid's geometry (1517a: a2r).

One can also understand Calvin's claim that, as a result of original sin, "our own insight … is utterly blind and stupid in divine matters" and that "man's keenness of mind is mere blindness as far as the knowledge of God is concerned" (Calvin 1536, Bk. II, Ch. II, sec. 19).

Then the Son, using a portion of the divine matter shared with him, brings into existence the Spirit.

Unless we can answer this question it is hard to know why the "divine matter" constitutes exactly three persons (and not more).

Since we are all made of the same divine matter, you are only a spiritual lightweight if you allow yourself to be.

Caravaggio, mad, bad and gay to boot, cocked a snook at the Inquisition by depicting even the most divine subject matter in resoundingly earthy terms.

But why does this divine gift matter?