Caligula took things a step further and had those in Rome, including senators, worship him as a tangible, living god.
That Baker always sings like she is trying to bounce her voice off the walls of a cathedral is intentional: she believes in God, says she has "encountered the tangible manifestation of God," and says that she tries to leave space for God to enter the room whenever she opens up her throat.
Our generation wants a tangible experience of God who is there".
Convinced that "the natural laws that scientists had discovered in the universe were tangible demonstrations of God's providential care," Western Christians abandoned the apophatic, mythic approach to faith in favor of a pseudoscientific rigor — and then had nowhere to turn when Darwin's theory of evolution arrived on the scene.
The average life is, honestly recounted, mostly devoid of provable, objective meaning or tangible evidence of God; it's boring more often than not, maddeningly random, secretly and not so secretly sordid and, except on the rarest occasions, does not seem to be accounted for by any plan larger than the all-too-human ones we come up with on our own.
"This is a tangible bridge to God's power, and divine will, and divine magic.
I explained the idea - that it is a tangible representation of God's help.
Many nuns can say they're in more or less constant contact with God, but few can say, as the Little Sisters can, that they've also been in contact with the U.S. Supreme Court and that that body granted their petition in a more tangible way than God usually does.
In the season of Advent, when we are singing hymns and asking Jesus to come, what we're expressing is this longing that is deep in the human heart for the presence of God, the real, tangible presence of God in our lives.
God knew that the Israelites needed a tangible way to access God, a way for that divine love to be received and for love of the divine to be expressed.
