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Example sentences for "divine things"

  • Divine things by the rule of sensible objects.

  • If therefore there is knowledge about created things, it seems that there is also knowledge of Divine things.

  • I answer that, Some say that there was no faith in the angels before they were confirmed in grace or fell from it, and in man before he sinned, by reason of the manifest contemplation that they had of Divine things.

  • That part of "the clean heart and the right spirit" which consists in the knowledge of divine things can be obtained only through a child-like bearing and temper.

  • Is a man, then, sensible that his understanding is darkened by sin, and that he is destitute of clear and just apprehensions of divine things?

  • It is plain, that the sinner's worldly mind and apathetic nature will never conduct him to a proper sense of Divine things.

  • Side-note: Impiety or outrage offered to divine things or places.

  • Luther, in his theses, attacked not only the pretended goodness of man's will, but also the pretended light of his understanding in regard to divine things.

  • If the form of the syllogism could be applied to divine things, we should know the article of the Holy Trinity, and should not believe it.

  • Divine things belongs to wisdom, the knowledge of all immaterial things to understanding, the knowledge of all conclusions to knowledge (scientia), the knowledge of all practical things to counsel.

  • Divine things in dreams and visions, and Moses, who saw God plainly and not by riddles, and who yet is called a prophet, according to Deut.

  • As the prejudices that are in the heart, against the truth of divine things, are hereby removed; so that the mind becomes susceptive of the due force of rational arguments for their truth.

  • Throughout the 18th enjoyed a solemn sense of Divine things.

  • In the preaching and the personal friendship of the minister of Trinity Church he found sympathetic guidance, and so 'gradually acquired more knowledge in divine things.

  • Cecil, with whom I had an agreeable conversation on Divine things.

  • Dogmatic Theology is the more important of the two, as treating more directly on divine things and as being the basis of Moral Theology.

  • Divine Persons are a model for the regulation of the Christian life, in knowledge and love of divine things.

  • By "suffering" Divine things is meant being well affected towards them, and united to them by love: and this takes place without any alteration in the body.

  • But since it behooves a man to do his utmost to strive onward even to Divine things, as even the Philosopher declares in Ethic.

  • But the sensitive appetite cannot "suffer" Divine things, since its object is the sensible good.

  • They were images to serve as recollections, not divine, but leading to divine things by divine power.

  • Who with a knowledge of divine things and a spiritual sense does not perceive in this a deception of the devil?

  • As the prejudices that are in the heart against the truth of divine things are hereby removed; so that the mind becomes susceptive of the due force of rational arguments for their truth.

  • The learned Grecians and their great philosophers by all their wisdom did not know God: they were not able to find out the truth in divine things.

  • The same thing results when men begin to be wise in divine things by following human reason.

  • Reason is the devil's bride, and always vaunts itself wise and skilful in divine things, and thinks what it holds to be right and good must be accounted so before God.

  • However, in divine things, reason can so attire and adorn itself as not to be recognized except by one who, guided by faith, has a right knowledge of God's Word.

  • Nor is it the wisdom of reason, which indeed presumes to judge of divine things, but yet can never understand them; on the contrary, although it accepts them, it quickly falls away into doubt and despair.

  • During the period of Greek philosophy which preceded the coming of Christ, human reason, unfolding itself from beneath, had aspired after that knowledge of divine things which is from above.

  • If, then, poetic and allegorical representations of divine things are to be permitted in the ideal republic, then the founders of the state are to prescribe "the moulds in which the poets are to cast their fictions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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