There was no evidence, either of a positive or negative type, of the actions of a Divine Being in this world ; ;

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

In 2003, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the BCP was published called the Book of Divine Worship.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes Confucius was a Divine Prophet of God, as was Lao-Tzu and other eminent Chinese personages.

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

On 24 January 41, Chaerea and other guardsmen accosted Caligula while he was addressing an acting troupe of young men during a series of games and dramatics held for the Divine Augustus.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

Classical deism held that a human's relationship with God was impersonal: God created the world and set it in motion but does not actively intervene in individual human affairs but rather through Divine Providence.

Paul was so sure of his spiritual authority in issuing this only nominally " voluntary " request that he was convinced that his own imprisonment would be dissolved via Divine intervention.

The theme of this year's feast was Mon ' xa Xrixtticho Korar Jieum-ia, Sam Fransisk Xavierak Man Dium-Ya, based on the Archdiocese of Goa and Damão's archbishops pastoral letter, Mon ' xa Xrixtticho Korar, Deva Mogacho Rupkar which in English roughly means " Covenant between Man and Nature Divine Love's Manifestation ".

The theme tune for the series was written and performed by The Divine Comedy, and was later reworked into " Songs of Love ", a track from the album Casanova.

New Thought as a movement had no single origin, but was rather propelled along by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the Unity Church, Religious Science, and Church of Divine Science.

He was accused of atheism in 1798 after publishing his essay “ Ueber den Grund unsers Glaubens an eine göttliche Weltregierung ” ( On the Ground of Our Belief in a Divine World-Governance ), which he had written in response to Friedrich Karl Forberg's essay “ Development of the Concept of Religion ,” in his Philosophical Journal.

One of Barrett's pupils, John Parkin, created his own handwritten grimoire, The Grand Oracle of Heaven, or, The Art of Divine Magic, although it was never actually published, largely because Britain at the time was at war with France, and grimoires were commonly associated with the French.

The Talmud suggests that this was a result of Divine Providence: God had granted the Jewish people another leader of great stature to succeed Rabbi Akiva.

Van Ingen's mural, The Divine Law, which was on display in Landis's courtroom while he was a federal judge.

An Italian nun named Sister Benedetta Carlini was documented to have seduced many of her sisters when possessed by a Divine spirit named " Splenditello "; to end her relationships with other women, she was placed in solitary confinement for the last 40 years of her life.

Traveling to the other side of the country, Divine then spent some time in San Francisco, California, a city which at the time had a large gay subculture that attracted Divine, who was then embracing his homosexuality.

During the early 1970s, Divine and Waters used to attend the balls in Washington, D. C. that were predominantly frequented by African-American members of the gay community, where Waters encouraged his drag persona to become even more outrageous in her outfits and antics, exposing her overweight stomach and carrying weapons ; he would later comment that he wanted Divine to become " the Godzilla of drag queens ", a direct confrontation with the majority of Euro-American drag queens who wanted to be Miss America.

Jay suggested that with his love of clubs, Divine could obtain work performing in them ; as a result, Divine first appeared in 1979 at a gay club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where his unscripted act included shouting " fuck you " repeatedly at the audience and then getting into a fight with another drag queen, a gimmick that proved popular with the club's clientele.

Divine followed this production with a very different role, that of gay male gangster Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind ( 1985 ).

Divine and his stage act proved particularly popular amongst gay audiences, and he appeared at some of the world's biggest gay clubs, such as Heaven in London.

According to Divine's manager, Bernard Jay, this was " not because Divine happened to be a gay person himself … but because it was the gay community that openly and proudly identified with the determination of the female character Divine ".

They later separated, and Divine would go on to have a brief affair with the gay porn star Leo Ford, something that was widely written and gossiped about in the gay press.

His mother's continued relationship with the gay community was later documented in a film Frances: A Mother Divine directed by Tim Dunn and Michael O ' Quinn which was released in 2010.

In the early 1980s hi energy disco had become popular in the gay scene of American cities like New York and San Francisco with acts like Divine, and The Weather Girls.

It was here that he began performing at gay clubs in the city in the early 1990s, eventually developing the character known as The Divine David, an " anti-drag queen " who combined " lacerating social commentary " with " breathtaking instances of self-recrimination and even self-harm.

Hoyle began appearing as a character whom he called ' The Divine David ', which would later be described by reporter Ben Walters as " a sort of anti-drag act caustically lamenting the narcissism of the gay mainstream ... through song, dance, painting and whatever else took his fancy.

Consequently, under no circumstance can they be approved ..... In the light of such teaching, this Dicastery, in accord with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, believes it necessary to state clearly that the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called " gay culture ".

Dante Alighieri, in the Divine Comedy, recounts that he saw Alfonso's spirit seated outside the gates of Purgatory with the other monarchs whom Dante blamed for the chaotic political state of Europe during the 13th century.

Cheirotonia always takes place during the Divine Liturgy.

Hildegard and Jutta most likely prayed, meditated, read scriptures such as the psalter, and did some sort of handwork during the hours of the Divine Office.

Those used during Mass and those for Divine Office.

The Torah contains a Divine commandment to eat matzo, specifically, on the first night of Passover and to eat only unleavened bread ( in practice, matzo ) during the entire week of Passover.

Whatever the kind, these branches are blessed and distributed together with candles either during the All-Night Vigil on the Eve of the Feast ( Saturday night ), or before the Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning.

A number of Saturdays during Great Lent are Saturdays of the Dead, with many of the hymns of the Daily Office and at the Divine Liturgy dedicated to remembrance of the departed.

One book commonly read during Great Lent, particularly by monastics, is The Ladder of Divine Ascent, which was written in about the seventh century by St. John of the Ladder when he was the Hegumen ( Abbot ) of St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

This is especially significant at the Great Entrance during the Divine Liturgy on Palm Sunday morning, since liturgically that entrance recreates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.

Since during Holy Week Vespers is usually joined to either the Presanctified Liturgy or the Divine Liturgy, and since the faithful must observe a total fast from all food and drink before receiving Holy Communion, it is celebrated in the morning ( Vespers on Good Friday is an exception to this, usually being celebrated in the afternoon ).

* Thirdly, during these raptures Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi gave utterance to maxims of Divine Love, and to counsels of perfection for souls.

In France it was customary to blow trumpets during Divine service, to recall the sound of the mighty wind which accompanied the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church the bread and wine that are consecrated during the Divine Liturgy are referred to as " the Gifts.

Ordination of a bishop, priest, deacon or subdeacon must be conferred during the Divine Liturgy ( Eucharist )— though in some churches it is permitted to ordain up through deacon during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts — and no more than a single individual can be ordained to the same rank in any one service.

Subdeacons are ordained during the Little Hours, but the ceremonies surrounding his blessing continue through the Divine Liturgy, specifically during the Great Entrance.

Although most of the Divine Office remains the same as during the season per annum, certain customs of Lent are adopted, including the suppression of the " Alleluia ", the replacement of the Alleluia at Mass with the Tract and the Gloria is no longer said on Sundays.

The names in the diptychs would be read publicly by the deacon during the Divine Liturgy ( Eucharist ), and by the priest during the Liturgy of Preparation.

* Wasmer, Robert A., “ Partisan Warfare in Monroe County, Tennessee, during the Civil War: The Murder of Joseph M. Divine ,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 ( Spring 2009 ), 66 – 97.

Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being ; during the first one hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things Divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding ".

The role of nobles in the Feudal System had yielded to the notion of the Divine Right of Kings during the Middle Ages ( in fact, this consolidation of power from the land-owning nobles to the titular monarchs was one of the most prominent themes of the Middle Ages ).