Sentence examples for very divine from inspiring English sources

For me, it was very divine in a lot of ways.

While commonplace, burning incense is among the most sublime and mystical of temple rites; ash and smoke from the main censor are believed to embody the very divine force of the resident god.

This practical intellect then serves as matter or substrate for its theoretical counterpart, which abstracts the universal idea or proposition from the particular subject formerly addressed.[59] The theoretical intellect's striving for universal truth is the acme of the soul's perfection, which Averroes calls a "very divine" pursuit,[60] though he believes relatively few individuals succeed at it.

They are truly heavenly, with a very particular divine creaminess.

There isn't room here to unpack the strange religious message scrambled into the text (we are asked to accept some very fishy divine intervention).

They saw how useful it would be to have a figurehead depicted as not merely beyond reproach but very nearly divine, for the king's blessing could then legitimise what otherwise would look awfully like any old Latin American junta, in Thailand's case backed by business cronies and the Bangkok elite.

When perceiving the ideas, we are viewing "the very same Divine Nature it self, as 'tis variously imitable or Participable ad extra, according to such or such intelligible Degrees of Being or Perfection" (Theory I 294).

Or, we the agents and deliverers of very many divine blessings fall short in this core mission of religion.

The Bible, for example, seems to speak of a fairly quick and recent creation by very specific divine interventions -- the creation of light on one day, for example, and the creation of all of the animals just a few days later.

They suggest, however, that this mystery is not a secret and that the Christian is being introduced through the eucharistic liturgy into the very reality of divine life and of the kingdom to come, which was revealed when God became man.

(The appeal to the very strangeness of divine causation itself is not sufficient to answer the objection.