The Gospel is the divinely appointed means to elevate men in Christian character.
At 18 he was divinelyimpressed with a call to the ministry.
Coming as it does divinely commissioned and bearing to man a divine message, it has a claim upon the attention and the acceptation of mankind.
When Elijah had excited the anger of Ahab by prophesying three years of drought, he was divinely ordered to take refuge by the brook Cherith, one of the tributaries of the Jordan.
The particular animal which represented the deity, and which was lodged with great state and honour in his temple at Memphis, was thought to be divinely selected for the purpose, and to be impressed with certain marks.
Possibly it was the divinely inspired vision of the great prophet, whose immortal songs are preserved in the fortieth and following chapters of the book of Isaiah.
It is all the work of a divinely gifted youth who swiftly ran to waste, carrying with him all the art of his day and land to the same fatal abyss.
So let us be thankful to the Bible for stating it so divinely and keeping it before our eyes in such splendid imagery.
If such persons were heard in conversation by those not divinely enlightened, they would be believed equal to the last class, or even more advanced.
The grace which they feel so strongly in themselves being an assurance to them that they have nothing to fear, they allow themselves to speak without being divinely commissioned.
Donal made no other reply than to turn a look of divinely stupid surprise and pity upon the young woman.
It sounds childish; and most people set action aside as what will do any time, and try first to settle questions which never can be settled but in just this divinely childish way.
The lay prince wished not to destroy the Church, but to use it; the sum of his purpose was to transfer the ultimate authority in conduct and thought from the divinely appointed priest to the divinely appointed king.
From this arose the widespread mystical hope in the appearance of a divinely inspired personage who would effect the universal triumph of Islam, purge the world of infidels, and assure the lasting happiness of all Moslems.
One important difference between the two movements is that Pan-Arabism is much more religious and Pan-Islamic in character, the Arabs regarding themselves as "The Chosen People" divinely predestined to dominate the whole Islamic world.
He regarded himself as the last of a series of divinely inspired prophets, beginning with Adam and extending through Moses and Jesus to himself, the mouthpiece of God's last and most perfect revelation.
But if the feast of the Passover was a commemoration, it also claims to be a sacrifice, and the first sacrifice which was Divinely founded and directed.
It is not true that the statute-book is inspired, any more than that the regulations of a household are divinely given.
Thus did Abraham, who went forth, not knowing whither, but knowing that he was divinely guided.
The doctrine that pardon comes not by a cheap and painless overlooking of transgression, as a thing indifferent, but by the transfer of its consequences to a victim divinely chosen, could not easily find clearer expression than in this word.
In this we discern the same union of Divine grace with human energy and use of means, as in all medicine, and indeed all uses of the divinely enlightened intellect of man.
Who does not perceive that the career of Moses hitherto was divinely directed?
It is no longer as holding a divinely appointed relation to us, but simply as he is a man, that we are bidden to respect his person, his family, his property, and his fair fame.
Moses had again failed, even though Divinely commissioned, in the work of emancipating Israel, and thereupon he had cried to the Lord Himself to undertake the work.
It is divinely unlike the frantic indecencies of many pagan rituals.
This oracle he uttered to him being divinely inspired, and Peisistratos, having understood the oracle and having said that he accepted the prophecy which was uttered, led his army against the enemy.
The King has great knowledge of art; he admired the whole series of wall-paintings, in which the life of Saint Bruno is divinely set forth.
The poor Queen had had several daughters, all divinely well made and pretty as little Cupids.
Tis the sacrament of labour, bread and winedivinely blest; Friendship's food and sweet refreshment, strength and courage, joy and rest.
After Dr Twisse had begun with a brief prayer, Mr Marshall prayed large two hours, most divinely confessing the sins of the members of the assembly in a wonderful, pathetic, and prudent way.
If human experience proves anything it is that every life needs the personal and practical help-the direct touch and word--of One who is Divinely powerful and Divinely patient.
She was sympathetic, simple, divinely kind to him because she liked him so much and knew that he would detest the other half of her.
There was something very simple, very motherly in her, and something divinely sincere.
The future blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a divinely fatal phenomenon.
Why not mention these almost divinely childish sayings of kindness?
The young girl had hastily thrust down her dress, with a divinely troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that.
Man was a sinner before an infinite God, and he could rise above the polluting influence of sin only by the special favor of God and his divinely communicated grace.
