But in all stages Christianity has ultimately the same object, namely, to effect a reconciliation with God, and deify man.
Who, where masses of men are burning to burst the bonds of time and sense, to deify and to adore, wants what seems earth-born, prosaic fact?
But worship on a purely human base, Though it may work its legends into song And deify the noblest of its race, Can never be unquestionably strong.
His choices free or fetter, elevate or debase, deify or demonize his humanity.
The immensity of the sky was above him, the far horizon partly hidden in gloom, but down there were the people whose voice was raised to deify their chosen hero in the intervals of demanding the death of a tyrant.
Hortensius Martius, speaking with passionate warmth, "but thou art a goddess; the blood of great Augustus doth deify thee.
Truly, in the presence of the sublimer, purer myth which is the element of your faith, O Remeses, I feel that I am not far above the Barbara kings of Southern Africa, who deify each his predecessor.
It is said that there is a disposition in the Bombay Presidency to deify the Maratha leader Śivaji.
It may be said that the development of both Buddhism and Hinduism in the centuries immediately preceding and following our era gives parallel manifestations of the same popular tendency to deify great men.
It is the pitch of mad degradation for our country, to see sons of the Hellenes, who read Plato and Homer, rushing to an outcast tribe, a tribe almost blotted out by Vespasian and Titus, in order to deify a dead man!
To deify the splendid sculptures of Phidias, which breathe Olympian beauty and goodness, is that less reasonable than to bow before two crossed beams of wood, a shameful instrument of torture?
The truth is, we are apt to deify men of genius, exactly as we deify the creative force of the universe, by attributing to logical design what is the result of blind instinct.
They deify nature; deify everything, and call it all God.
The emperor is a dangerous man--or god, Thou knowest they deify this personage; It were not wise to tempt him overmuch.
When they come to deify Us, we shall have to be infallible.
As a substitute for their ancient faith and as a supplement to philosophy, they began to deify their illustrious men and women.
This same Caligula who was a monster of depravity, insisted on being worshiped as a god in the flesh throughout the Roman empire, although the custom had been not to deify emperors until after they were dead.
Absolve me, O God of all, that with a pure heart, trembling thoughts and a contrite soul I may partake of Thine undefiled and most holy Mysteries which enliven and deify all who partake of them with a pure heart.
Through Thy glorious Ascension Thou didst deify the flesh which Thou didst assume, and placed it on the throne at the Father's right hand.
Such a deed would deify almost any man, in almost any country, before the dawn of letters and the recognition of the science of mind.
The story of the crucifixion, therefore, whether true or false, deified or helpeddeify many great men and exalt them to the rank of Gods.
Man is not the summit and principle of the universe; in vain does he labor to deify himself.
Most generally they deify man, declaring that there is no other God than the idea of humanity, no other infinite than the indefinite character of the aspirations of our own soul.
But thus to deify history is also in a fashion to destroy it.
Can you assert that those traditions which deify Mohammed and Shakya are the statements of bare facts?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
