Sentence examples for once divine from inspiring English sources

Moreover, since the entities are at once divine and human (because both the spiritual and material qualities of man partake of divine), everyone faithful to the wise Ahura can commune with him.

Presumably, the untutored viewer might conclude that the hero was a gifted preacher who had somehow incurred the wrath of his rulers; but it would still be hard to work out what the point of the story was.The Byzantine Christ, by contrast, never ceases to be many different things at once: divine and human, humiliated and victorious, wounded and healing.

All Christians share the belief that, in the words of the ancient Nicene Creed, Jesus Christ was "begotten, not made," the Son of God, at once divine and human.

A surreal consequence of Maria's transformation of the island's landscape is the lack of shade in once-divine town squares and jungle-like hinterlands.

He argues that we have a problem because "the tremendous liberation of sex and marriage over the past hundred years has been accompanied by love's ossification, rather than its reinvention", and that human love is now "widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment".

And so Callimachus writes: "I am the work of that Samian who once received divine Homer in his house.

Once, the divine sage Narada asks her "whose she was".

It is at once disgusting and divine.

It's surprisingly moving stuff – dressed up with just enough archival outrage to remind you how scandalous Divine once seemed.

A longstanding victim of change is the old profession of the devadasis, the temple courtesans once honored as divine bearers of fecundity.

Above all, democracy is uncomfortable to people who once relied on divine design but are suddenly exposed to the rigors of accepting responsibility for their fate.