Sentence examples for relation to a deity from inspiring English sources

She was encouraging women to become free agents not only in relation to a deity but in their relations with men.

For example, a belief in human inferiority in relation to an almighty deity is expressed in the faceless figures of early Jewish painting and in the stylizations of Byzantine imagery; and human insignificance against the dynamic forces of nature is symbolized in Chinese landscape paintings by man's puny scale within a monumental setting.

In relation to the deity's iconography, she denotes the Brahminical aspect and Vaishnava connection of the deity contrasting with the accompanying dogs—symbolizing a non-Brahminical aspect.

These were ideas that Maraini had developed in the last 50 years about man's relation to his deities and his fellow humans.

(An appropriate relationship to a deity).

Yet he is not so often likened to a deity as to a rock star.

Many pray to a deity called Lady Death for a smooth deliverance.

Human sacrifice, the offering of the life of a human being to a deity.

Sometimes the grains are added to food prepared as an offering to a deity.

And the constitution famously makes no reference whatsoever to a deity of any kind.

The same restriction is operative when the philosopher turns his culminating attention to a deity.