For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.

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 Harmonites named their third and last town Economy, after the spiritual notion of the Divine Economy, “ a city in which God would dwell among men ” and where perfection would be attained.

In January 1947, Nehru said that independent India would not accept the Divine Right of Kings, and in May 1947, he declared that any princely state which refused to join the Constituent Assembly would be treated as an enemy state.

" ' There existed, long before this time, certain men more ancient than all those who are esteemed philosophers, both righteous and beloved by God, who spoke by the Divine Spirit, and foretold events which would take place, and which are now taking place.

According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

God is said ( as in Isaiah 45 ) to be the author of evil in the sense that the corruption of material objects in nature is ordained by Him, as a means for carrying out the design of the universe ; and on the other hand, the evil which exists as a consequence of the breach of Divine laws is in the same sense due to Divine appointment ; the universe would be less perfect if its laws could be broken with impunity.

It should be observed that the universal perfection to which evil in some form is necessary, is the perfection of this universe, not of any universe: metaphysical evil, that is to say, and indirectly, moral evil as well, is included in the design of the universe which is partially known to us ; but we cannot say without denying the Divine omnipotence, that another equally perfect universe could not be created in which evil would have no place.

In the 2nd millennium, polytheism was expressed through the concepts of the Divine Council and the divine family, a single entity with four levels: the chief god and his wife ( El and Asherah ); the seventy divine children or " stars of El " ( including Baal, Astarte, Anat, probably Resheph, as well as the sun-goddess Shapshu and the moon-god Yerak ); the head helper of the divine household, Kothar wa-Hasis ; and the servants of the divine household, including the messenger-gods who would later appear as the " angels " of the Hebrew Bible.

Nonetheless, through the personalised aspects of God, revealing the concealed mystery from within the Divine Unity, man can perceive and relate to God, who otherwise would be unbridgably far, as the supernal Divine emanations are mirrored in the mystical Divine nature of man's soul.

When one receives the Divine Grant of Sazuke, he or she would be considered a Yoboku ( lit.

Sometimes the hands are arranged to form an overlapping lattice of ' windows ', referring to a ceremony sometimes called Nesiat Kapayim, the " lifting of the hands ", in which Jewish tradition states the Divine Presence would shine through the fingers of the priests as they blessed the people, who close their eyes as the light could be blinding.

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.

When Xanthus was rebuked by the grieving Achilles for allowing Patroclus to be slain, Hera granted Xanthus human speech which broke Divine law, saying that a god had killed Patroclus, and that a god would soon kill Achilles too.

In the same literature yoginī is the term used for female practitioners as well as divine goddesses and enlightened mothers, all revered as aspects of the Divine Mother Devi, without whom there would be no yogis.

* Sri Potuluri Virabrahmendra Swami, writing about 1, 000 years ago in " Divya Maha Kala Gnana " ( literally: " Divine Knowledge of the Time ") claims that Kalki would arrive when the Moon, Sun, Venus and Jupiter have entered the same sign ; such occurrences are not rare and the next is expected in the year 2012 or afterwards.

People traveling from the west side of the state on their way to Detroit would look forward to stopping at the Hotel Divine, spending the night and participating in the good food and dining room service.

" Around this time, Chicago disk jockey Dave Garroway coined a second nickname for her, " The Divine One ", that would follow her throughout her career.

The only cure would be the dissemination of the inner Divine teachings of Hasidic thought.

She saw that he had a great mind, and that if he would put his mind to The Almighty ’ s Divine Torah, he would flourish into a great teacher in Israel.

Due to what these churches perceive as the errors of modernism and ecumenism in mainstream Orthodoxy, they refrain from concelebration of the Divine Liturgy with them while maintaining that they remain fully within the canonical boundaries of the Church: i. e., professing Orthodox belief, retaining legitimate episcopal succession, and existing in communities with historical continuity.

These life forms remain devoid of prana ( breath ), until the Divine entity infuses them with life.

There is no " stripping of the altar " on Holy and Great Thursday as in the West ; instead, all of the church hangings are changed to black, and will remain so until the Divine Liturgy on Great Saturday.

In his private life, Divine had also become the godfather of Brook Yeaton, the son of his friends Chuck Yeaton and Pat Moran ; the two would remain very close until Divine's death.

The bull recognized the existence of witches :" any persons of both sexes, unmindful of their own salvation and straying from the Catholic Faith, have abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi, and by their incantations, spells, conjurations, and other accursed charms and crafts, enormities and horrid offences, have slain infants yet in the mother's womb, as also the offspring of cattle, have blasted the produce of the earth, the grapes of the vine, the fruits of the trees, nay, men and women, beasts of burthen, herd-beasts, as well as animals of other kinds, vineyards, orchards, meadows, pasture-land, corn, wheat, and all other cereals ; these wretches furthermore afflict and torment men and women, beasts of burthen, herd-beasts, as well as animals of other kinds, with terrible and piteous pains and sore diseases, both internal and external ; they hinder men from performing the sexual act and women from conceiving, whence husbands cannot know their wives nor wives receive their husbands ; over and above this, they blasphemously renounce that Faith which is theirs by the Sacrament of Baptism, and at the instigation of the Enemy of Mankind they do not shrink from committing and perpetrating the foulest abominations and filthiest excesses to the deadly peril of their own souls, whereby they outrage the Divine Majesty and are a cause of scandal and danger to very many (...) the abominations and enormities in question remain unpunished not without open danger to the souls of many and peril of eternal damnation.

Heaven, Hell, and the Divine Despot may descend to earth and have offspring in the Hamlet theme which involves a child's " ambivalent attitude " toward its parents and off of which are spun such variants as Oedipus and Orestes ( Bodkin 1934: 11-15, cited in Williams 1973: 221 ), or all may remain at the divine level, as in the situation with Milton's God and Satan, or Aeschylus's Zeus and Prometheus:

* Aset-daughter of Ramesses VI, also given title of Divine Adoratrice of Amun, stipulation established by Ramesses for the holder of the God's Wife title to remain a virgin and facilitate the transfer of power by adopting the daughter of the next pharaoh

However, Hesychasts who are living as hermits might have a very rare attendance at the Divine Liturgy ( see the life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov ) and might not recite the Divine Office except by means of the Jesus Prayer ( attested practice on Mt Athos ).

Such objections however are very controversial and have been refuted by proponents of Divine Omniscience.

Augustine wrote: That the good purpose of marriage, however, is better promoted by one husband with one wife, than by a husband with several wives, is shown plainly enough by the very first union of a married pair, which was made by the Divine Being Himself.

At his funeral, attended by over 12, 000 people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion, " It's a very sad day.

It should be noted that this is also a kind of definition, namely that the Divine is an experience, which – because of the very definition of apophatic theology – the then Divine cannot be.

Khayyám's answer is that " the Divine Origin of all existence not only emanates wujud " being ", by virtue of which all things gain reality, but It is the source of order that is inseparable from the very act of existence.

If, however, salutary acts can in virtue of the Divine justice give the right to an eternal reward, this is possible only because they themselves have their root in gratuitous grace, and consequently are of their very nature dependent ultimately on grace, as the Council of Trent emphatically declares ( Sess.

The jurists from Aleppo severely criticized the claim that this poetry was a mystical or expresses Divine realities, which made his disciples very upset.

Even though Scott thought Divine unsuitable for the part, he claimed to be enthusiastic about Divine's work and was very interested in including him in another of his films, but ultimately this never came about.

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

Divine's mother, Frances Milstead, remarked that whilst Divine " was blessed with many talents and abilities, he could be very moody and demanding.

By that time, Dick had completed a second novel, one also filled with his thoughts about religion and philosophy and very indirectly linked to VALIS ( the VALIS entity gets but two mentions ), which he called VALIS Regained and which was published as The Divine Invasion.

At the very end of the Divine Liturgy, all people come up to receive a little piece of bread, called Antidoron, which is blessed but not consecrated, being taken from the same loaf as the bread used in the consecration.

" The author is not speaking of the Liturgy, but of the Divine Office, but that does not affect the question, and the theory, which had its obvious controversial value, was at one time very popular with Anglicans.

The relation of the Islamic sects to Jewish Gnosticism in their teachings concerning the incarnation of the Divine Being is very uncertain.

The eastern Church, believes that hell or eternal damnation and heaven exist and are the same place, which is being with God, and that the very same Divine love ( God's uncreated energies ) which is a source of bliss and consolation for the righteous ( because they love God, His love is Heaven for them ), is also a source of torment ( or a " Lake of Fire ") for sinners ( because they don't love God, they will feel His love this way ).

Themed Countdown specials have become very popular and lost performances by John Farnham, drag queen Divine, a-ha, Pseudo Echo and the Countdown Dancers performing the Flashdance medley highlight the great music of the period.

Lords day in this Town is but very little regarded as a day for spiritual worship lick houses are allowed to be open, and frequented during Divine Service.

In 1914, Father Divine traveled to Brooklyn, New York, with a very modest number of followers and an all-black congregation.

The subject to be discussed was very delicate: the Divine origin of the rights and duties of bishops.