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Example sentences for "divine origin"

  • Upon approaching to lift him from the earth, he perceived his head encircled with fiery rays, which made him believe the child to be of divine origin.

  • To him all the traditions and practices of his people were at least of divine origin; and hence must have a meaning of eternal significance.

  • Yet as a loyal Jew he certainly believed these to be of divine origin,--and that they must have a meaning deeper than the physical fact itself.

  • Neither Matthew, Mark, nor Luke ever dreamed that he was of divine origin.

  • They also taught that the soul had a divine origin; that after death it was to be judged according to the deeds done in the body; that those who had done well passed into perpetual joy, and those who had done evil into endless pain.

  • They accounted for genius by divine origin.

  • Orthodoxy dies hard, and its defenders tell us that this fact shows that it is of divine origin.

  • In this story, we have an unusual ingredient, inasmuch as there is a witness to that which we may call the immaculate conception, and after birth, a proof of the child's divine origin!

  • They think that there are spirits of divine origin within or connected with the eagle, the owl, and all birds perfectly white.

  • The science of government, it is said, is of divine origin; a participation in its administration can not then necessarily involve anything to deteriorate from the true dignity of woman.

  • Mr. Carlile: If these writings are of divine origin, they cannot receive any injury from investigation or from any comment made on them.

  • It is there treated as a great offence for any persons to deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Scriptures, namely the Old and New Testament, to be of divine origin.

  • The Koran, for instance, was supposed, by millions of people, to be of divine origin.

  • Mr. Carlile: You have not pointed out the divine origin of the Scriptures.

  • The principles we discover there are eternal, and of divine origin: they are the foundation of all the science that exists in the world, and must be the foundation of theology.

  • This knowledge is of divine origin; and it is from the Bible of the creation that man has learned it, and not from the stupid Bible of the church, that teaches man nothing.

  • Like the Ramayana, it is believed to be of divine origin.

  • Like them, he distinguishes between direct and indirect communication, and takes care to define the particular meaning of the term, divine origin of power, when applied to ecclesiastical authority.

  • The following statement is true beyond controversy: Man cannot, in the present constitution of his mind, have sufficient reason for believing that religion has a Divine origin, unless it be accompanied with miracles.

  • Miracles believed, lie at the foundation of all religions which men have ever received as of Divine origin.

  • And man, if he considered acts to be of a Divine origin, which were plainly within the compass of human ability, would violate his own reason.

  • The question whether the sacrifices, and the particular regulations concerning them, were of Divine origin, does not affect the argument.

  • Christ begins to baptize; complaints of the Baptist's disciples, and testimony of the Baptist to Christ's divine origin, and to the necessity of faith in Him.

  • Nathanael confesses not alone Christ's Divine origin, but also His human sovereignty: Thou art the Son of God, Thou art the King of Israel.

  • If doctrines the truth and goodness of which are apparent do not afford any evidence of Divine Revelation, how can doctrines which Reason can neither discover nor comprehend attest the Divine origin of miracles?

  • If the truths said to be revealed were either of an ordinary character or naturally attainable they would at once discredit the claim to a Divine origin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divine origin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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