Sentence examples for form of gods from inspiring English sources

In Neil Gaiman's book, American Gods, the one-time Who writer plays upon this modern shift by depicting a world in which our worship of certain things – the internet, gambling, TV – take on the physical form of gods themselves, while the gods of old begin to die as faith in them dwindles.

What about: "If cattle and horses had hands, and were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the form of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves"?

Probably some form of God for dummies.

Jacob thinks the form of God is unimportant: "Don't say that word 'God.' Say the Holy One.

Then there is samadhi.…When [the serpent] rises to the sixth stage, the form of God is seen.

In a secular workplace in a polyglot country, this form of God's work involves both an open hand and a light touch.

There are atheists who go beyond declaring personal disbelief in God and insist that any form of god-talk, any notion of higher purpose, is incompatible with a scientific worldview.

Though still delivered in the form of God's direct speech, the messages became longer and less ecstatic, less urgent in their warnings if more earnest in their guidance.

Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC said on Monday, the opening day of Droudis's trial, that Monis saw fire as "a form of God's retribution" and directed her to burn the body "in furtherance of his belief that the deceased had wronged him, and therefore deserved God's vengeance".

Hesychast prayer aspires to attain the most intense form of God-man communion in the form of a vision of the "divine light," or "uncreated energy," based on the model of the Synoptic accounts of Christ's Transfiguration on Mount Tabor (Mark 9 1-7).

The ultimate kitsch representation of art-making is the moment in the movie "The Agony and the Ecstasy" when Charlton Heston's Michelangelo, desperate to break his symbol set of divine likenesses, sees the nebulous form of God creating Adam in the clouds above his head.