Sentence examples for personal deity from inspiring English sources

He often prayed: to Ewa, a god of serpents; to Oxossi, the hunter god (Badaró's personal deity); and to a dozen others, West African in origin.

She had been brought up an Episcopalian, she told me, but had rather early "given up orthodox belief" — belief in any personal deity or intention — in favor of a more "scientific" notion of God.

She had been brought up an Episcopalian, she told me, but had rather early "given up orthodox belief"—belief in any personal deity or intention in favor of a more "scientific" notion of God.

Beside the Samkhya-Yoga, which is in the foreground of the epic's philosophical portions, there are Vedanta texts emphasizing the unity of spirits and theistic texts emphasizing not only a personal deity but also the doctrine of the avatar (avatara), or incarnation.

(I only found out recently that the Anglican hymnal was co-edited by a certain Ralph Vaughan Williams, my own personal deity. Now I know why I kept welling up in choir. It wasn't the smell of Gilly Maize's skin after all).

For example, it has been argued (Baltzly 2003) that the Stoics believed in a personal deity.

As the Clergy Letter Project makes clear, many devoutly religious individuals maintain a deep commitment to a personal deity while also accepting biological evolution.

Among their number and infinite variety, all of which are depicted here in paintings, are celebrated female teachers, various goddesses and personal deities associated with healing.

Do some research on arguments for and against the existence of a universal creator deity (which may or may not have been intelligent or conscious in any sense we might recognize), as well as for and against the existence of a personal God (a deity concerned with the daily affairs of human beings).

Unlike Sāṃkhya school of Hinduism which pursues non-theistic/atheistic rationalist approach, Yoga school of Hinduism accepts the concept of a "personal, yet essentially inactive, deity" or "personal god".

This is a disaster, he writes, since (on this description) it can support few moral concepts or distinctions, let alone concepts germane to justice and politics, or even "truths of a personal, present deity" and "God's moral government".