Sentence examples for worldly power from inspiring English sources

To say that God is powerful, for example, would mean that God's power is beyond worldly power, and incomparable to any other power.

Prelates were blinded by the pursuit of worldly power.

Seldom has a composer been so enmeshed in worldly power.

It was intended as a reminder of the vanity of worldly power and glory.

In those days, serious critics could still at least seem to exert real worldly power.

The message of the Incarnation, he said, was that success was ultimately achieved through humility rather than worldly power.

But those eager to ridicule the re-signing of two players deemed to be beyond the peak of their once worldly powers have been forced to reconsider.

"Sur is literature's liberty confronting worldly powers," he continued, adding that Ocampo had "done what no one else had ever done in the Americas".

He became a more modern symbol of rebellion during the 19th century, when Italy was unified, anticlericalism flared and the papacy was stripped of much of its worldly powers.

The purpose of this campaign was to reverse the Supreme Leader's political credibility crunch by bestowing him with unprecedentedly vast worldly powers, backed by the Hidden World.

The Old Testament has very little good to say about worldly powers: They will take, take, and then take some more (1 Samuel 8 10-18).