Sentences with phrase «than divine»

It was dark and looming; it wasn't afraid to be creepy without much more explanation than divine intervention.

To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine doc - ument.»

She has made the Gospel shine appealingly in our time; she had the mission of making the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, known and loved; she helped to heal souls of the rigours and fears of Jansenism, which tended to stress God's justice rather than his divine mercy.

With a straightforward logic, he argues that insofar as mercy implies relation to imperfect creatures, it can not possibly be one of God's essential attributes, and that therefore «divine justice must be more fundamental than divine mercy.»

According to Plato's Timaeus, the divine body is formed by all the actualities there are, other than the divine experiences.

Today men are more interested in men than they are in God; and the questions they ask concern human relations more than divine relations.

It is true enough that the Almighty foresees how man will act; but this foresight is nothing other than divine knowledge of the freedom of choice, which is a natural law.

Christ is the masterpiece of love in the midst of a creation designed for love, rather than a divine plumber come to fix the mess of original sin.

They deal with evil as it needs to be dealt with» from a human rather than divine perspective.

I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and read the first passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a gospel text.

To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine document.

Jesus does indeed fit the basic definition of a zombie, I think you just reject the notion because of the stigma attached to the word zombie isn't normally something you hear when you think of jesus, which is why atheists and non-christians in general like to call jesus a zombie, it makes him more mythical than divine.

But if we understand God's «glory» as precisely the divine Love - in - act, with its rejoicing in the joys and its sorrowing with the sadness of God's human children — indeed the glory which is nothing other than the divine generosity, gracious welcome, and unfailing faithfulness in mercy and forgiveness, then the phrase is rich in meaning.

Liberal theology tends to see the Bible and Jesus in human rather than divine terms, and is more likely to question the historicity of the Old and New Testament scriptures.

To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine docu - ment.

People like me see that how you worship has more to do with your environment than the divine.

Through this dialectical motion, God is expressed in something other than the divine self defined through the phenomena that are different from the divine self.

And if you are not a believer (as is your right, although I pray that you may one day have that faith) then it may be difficult to understand that prayer is more than a divine Christmas wish list.

Educators would teach science without intrusions from creationists, and students would learn that evolution rather than divine creativity is the ultimate explanation of why we are the kind of organisms we are.

God's primordial evaluation is neither explicable in terms of, nor reducible to, anything other than the divine choice itself.

Such an examination is all the more necessary because it has been charged that Hartshorne's doctrine of divine providence amounts to little more than divine imposition of the laws of nature on the universe (Lewis S. Ford in TPP 75 - 80).

Anything else would be less than a divine economy: it would be untrue to the identity of man, that ardent seeker of truth, love and life, and it would not be worthy of the Divine Wisdom.

In my mind, the pastor's divine appointment is nor more, nor less, than the divine appointment of my boss (for «every power is established by God»).

While infinite graces have flowed from this pious practice, Tim Finigan now assesses the dangers that can arise when the Eucharist is viewed as a human prize rather than a divine privilege.

These Roasted Turmeric Pumpkin Seeds are none other than a divine snack!

Although his intentions were, in all likelihood, good, Ralph Waldo Emerson did little to increase the palatability of poetry when he called it «nothing less than divine communication.»

It is broken, defunct, dead, more suburban than divine, and suggestive of the materiality of sex rather than the purity of rebirth.

While the plural of anecdote isn't data, there comes a point where something happens often enough that one has to believe there's something other than divine intervention at work.

According to the classical doctrine, divine justice must be more fundamental than divine mercy, because justice is essential to God and mercy is not.

Christian faith is so much faith and so little sight that its adherents are always seeking for some demonstration which will prove to themselves and others that it is true, though the demonstration is bound to be somewhat beside the point — like most miracles — proving not truth but utility, and exhibiting a power which may be that of God, but may also be that of faith itself, or of spiritual forces somewhat less than divine.

i) However, the cumulativeness is more or less hidden, and hence missed by most thinkers, because of the indistinctness characterizing all experience other than the divine.

If we ever face the prospect of an imminent assault on Earth from a large wayward rock, Remo hopes we can offer a bit more than divine intervention, which was all that Charles Bolden had for Congress in 2013.

Jesus has already pointed out what is wrong with the disciples» perspective — they have set their minds on things human rather than divine (Mark 8:33).

Throwing rocks at a hillside will move it no more than His divine will.

noun an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.