Sentence examples for hand of deity from inspiring English sources

Benjamin is supposed to have replied, "It is true that I am a Jew, and when my ancestors were receiving their Ten Commandments from the immediate hand of Deity, amidst the thunderings and lightnings of Mount Sinai, the ancestors of my opponent were herding swine in the forests of Great Britain".

Some people see it as the hand of the deity and others see it as the complexity of the way the human mind works.

On the contrary: he took an inexhaustible delight in the natural world, seeing in it the hand of a God who differed greatly from the grim deity of his father.

But most religions offer safety in numbers, a sense of belonging, a dream of salvation, if not in this life, then in the next, and the patriarchal reassurance that our future is in the good hands of wise deities and their representatives on Earth.

The story, taken out of Chaucer's Knight's Tale, is essentially another romance, in which two young gallants compete for the hand of Emilia and in which deities preside over the choice.

This shows that being financially buoyant does not eliminate the entrenched belief in the intervention of deity.

Divine body parts could also act as separate deities, like the Eye of Ra and the Hand of Atum, both of which were personified as goddesses.

His Prometheus has been compared to the Book of Job of the Bible both in its structure (i.e., the immobilized ic figure maintaining his cause in dialogues with visitors) and in its preoccupation with the problem of suffering at the hands of a seemingly unjust deity.

In a unique form of Kāli worship, Shantipur worships Kāli in the form of a hand painted image of the deity known as Poteshwari (meaning the deity drawn on a piece of cloth).

His successor had only types of deities.

As he bathed, a number of deities came into being.