Sentence examples for personal gods from inspiring English sources

Images of the Tirthankara are not worshiped as personal gods capable of giving blessings or interfering with human events.

We are also introduced to Komunyakaa's personal gods, which include the Goddess of Quotas, the God of Broken Things, Slime Molds, Polecat and Maggot.

Traditional symbolism is fused with autobiography in collages and installations that overflow with references to his childhood years, the environment and a pantheon of personal gods and icons, sometimes painted, sometimes glued or even sewn on.

When chanting this mantra, some devotees went into samadhi (a form of meditation) This act is also called maha-samadhi ("great samadhi") and claimed that they could see their personal gods, even though they had no knowledge of Astanga Yoga.

There's surely so much else going on - worries about dividing assets, fair settlements, what's going to happen to the children, if there are any, where you're going to live, perhaps - maybe making peace with your personal gods about dissolving a union you hoped would last all your life... Yet what you wear to your divorce has a weight and an importance way beyond the simply practical.

Their songs frequently deal with the love between the human personality and a personal god, who resides within the individual.

Kretzmann took this to show the incompatibility of divine omniscience with "the doctrine of a personal God distinct from other persons" (1966, 420).

God is personal (God in some sense contains three persons) but isn't strictly speaking a self (Davis 2006, 69 71).

The Orthodox Faith preaches a personal God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- Three Persons, One Kingship.

Christians believe in a personal God who forgives sins.

Judaism, on the other hand, looks upon the Bible as divinely inspired by a personal God.