It has escaped the execration of the world only by its priestly trick of deifying Jesus and sophisticating every doctrine that he taught.
It was no good his having destroyed the old traditional superstition, if people by deifying the stars were to fill the sky with seven times seven as many objects of worship as had been there before.
The religion which ends in deifying only kings and millionaires may be vulgarly popular but is self-condemned.
When I partake of Thy divine and deifying Grace, I am no longer alone-- I am with Thee, my Christ, the Light of the Triple Sun which enlightens the world.
May the Tempter not find me without Thy Grace and seize me deceitfully and lead me, deceived, from Thy deifying words.
And the following verses: Be awed, O man, when you see the deifying Blood!
Every City set up the worship of its own Founder and Kings, and by alliances and conquests they spread this worship, and at length the Phœnicians and Egyptians brought into Europe the practice of Deifying the dead.
In unreconciled contradictions collected in this tract out of Scripture he thinks to be able to prove that God Himself wished to warn us against thedeifying of the letter.
You have persuaded me already that you were right in deifying Orestes and Pylades, though I thought differently just now.
The attempt, which is to form the subject of our study to-day, that of deifying man, is a far more subtle one.
He who denies God is always deifying something; and all worship which is not that of the Eternal and Infinite Mind is stultified by glaring contradictions.
If Religion, instead of deifying princes, had taught them to respect the property of their subjects, to be just, to exercise only their lawful rights, we should not be shocked by the sight of such a multitude of beggars.
But the Nihongi in the parallel passage merely speaks of its efficacy in repelling evil spirits, and refrains from deifying or even personifying it.
When the practice of deifying men was once established it was enough to entitle them Gods, the term itself implying the possession of those powers which we call supernatural, but which are only so when predicated of men.
We have seen that it lends its sanction to some practices of this kind by affirming that they were taught or practised by Gods, or by deifying the objects used in them.
The chief reason for deifying trees and reeds was that they furnish materials for house-building, and are therefore deserving of our gratitude and worship.
The usage of deifying living rulers was long before common in Egypt and the east, [810] and had been adopted by the conquering Spartan Lysander in Asia Minor as readily as by the conquering Alexander.
One of the inferrible effects of the Evêmerist method was to facilitate for the time the adoption of the Egyptian and eastern usage of deifying kings.
Equally erroneous is his corresponding assertion that the artist loves a woman spiritually, that is, in the sense of deifying her, for the purpose of drawing from her inspiration for his work.
The women imitated metaphysical love and distorted it; sexual impulse, arrogantly attempting to reach beyond the earth, reigned in the place of spiritual, deifying love.
It is obvious that this love of God is not the original creation of the lover, as is the deifying love of woman, but the mystic love whose self-evident object is God or eternity.
This was an important stage on the road from the spiritual to the deifying love, which I have called metaphysical eroticism.
The deifying love of man has no parallel phenomenon in the emotional life of woman.
You will understand, then, Marquis, that it is not necessary to acquire the habit of deifying the fancy you entertain for the Countess.
Thus vice will preserve its proper name; and you will prevent misguided men from deifying their passions, and placing them on their altars after having adored them in their hearts.
What has become of the idolatrous worship which Greece paid to sensible forms, that adoration which it offered to nature by deifying all that was delicious and beautiful, all that could interest the senses and the heart?
Add to this, the affectation of new titles and distinctive badges of honour; nay, the very deifying of such as were the most bloody tyrants.
Seneca drollingly related the deifying of Claudius; Plutarch the dialogue betwixt Gryllus and Ulysses; Lucian and Apuleius the story of an ass; and somebody else records the last will of a hog, of which St. Hierom makes mention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
