Sentence examples for divine sanctuary from inspiring English sources

The Saudis "have made the divine sanctuary unsafe for everybody", Khamenei said in a statement posted on his website.

This follows announcements last week that barred drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska and a brokered settlement that cancelled 32,000 acres of mining leases on Montana land considered by the Blackfeet tribe as "like a church, a divine sanctuary".

To walk humbly with your God, the words are above the gate, the gate that leads out from the mysterious, wonderful illumination of the divine sanctuary, where no one can remain alive.

The 12th-century canonist Theodore Balsamon wrote that "the monthly affliction banished them from the divine and holy sanctuary".

You are my love, my sanctuary, my divine gift.

This was the occasion of the festival procession, when priests carried the divine image out from the sanctuary in its model barque.

Jeroboam I (10th century bce), the first king of the north, now called Israel (the kingdom in the south was called Judah), appreciated the inextricable link of Jerusalem and its sanctuary with the Davidic claim to divine election to kingship over all of Israel (the whole people, north and south).

Under the mandate of the cult, the priest-prophet (who may be an ordinary priest) is part of the priestly staff of a sanctuary, and his duty is to pronounce the divine oracular word at the appropriate point in a liturgy.

Within the Holy of Holies, two cherubim of olive wood stood with the Ark; this innermost sanctuary was considered the dwelling place of the Divine Presence (Shekhina) and could be entered only by the high priest and only on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).

Sanctuary Ghosts The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave.

Luther, returning to Wittenberg in 1522, after a period in hiding, found the city's sanctuaries ravaged by zealots who deemed images of the divine idolatrous.