Sentence examples for reflections of god from inspiring English sources

But while Sunnis rely heavily on the practice of the Prophet and his teachings (the "sunna"), the Shia see their ayatollahs as reflections of God on earth.

Biblical Israel aspired to attain a vision in which all people were recognized as reflections of God's image -- each person of equal worth and dignity.

"Until you experience human grace as a reflection of God's grace, I don't think you really get it.

But the religious parties are themselves split between the ultra-orthodox sects that in the past resisted Zionism and more modern nationalists (like the National Religious Party) who regard the state as a reflection of God's will.

Swedenborg's belief that everything in nature is a reflection of God's immanence -- which infuses the world with a "living motion" that can open the individual to spiritual "influx" -- was one of the underpinnings of Inness's landscapes, whose merging forms and liberated brushwork have a living motion of their own.

And everyone was a reflection of God to him, said his daughter, Adeena Homampour, a speech therapist.

The overindulgence of material things is a reflection of God's absence in our world.

In the Judeo-Christian heritage the person is inviolable because he or she is a reflection of God's grace, made in God's image.

"How was my parents' absence in any way a reflection of God's ever-present love?" I continue to ask this baffling question.

Given the fragmentary nature of the manuscript, it is difficult to reach a conclusive judgment on the content and significance of Kant's last reflections on God and religion.

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant set the terms for much modern reflection on God's existence when he challenged the grounds of most previous efforts to prove it.