Divinize

Very little in the new grant of power or authority to the Fed takes account of the idea that, for example, a Fed that is supposed to supervise, scrutinize, divinize, and so on, in all these new ways will not the same Fed, the stable ideal of which we relied upon in giving it all these new functions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You want to divinize the entire creation, to taste its bliss nature. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

These chosen souls, He inundates with celestial gifts, -- revealing glimpses of His glory and beauty, transforming them into Himself, so as in a manner to divinize them, and even sometimes imparting visible external marks of their sublime spiritual exaltation. ❋ A Religious Of The Ursuline Community (N/A)

The tendency to divinize the totem is at least as much dependent on the positive sense of unity with it, as on the negative scruples which limit the relation in each particular case. ❋ Unknown (1920)

Is it necessary to point out the folly as well as the crime of this delusion -- the ludicrous inconsequence of men who divinize humanity yet revile what they call "society"? ❋ Nesta H. Webster (1918)

Peoples, whose ignorance of the physical laws of nature has not been compensated by revealed teaching, have invariably personalized the forces of nature, and, feeling that their welfare depended on the beneficent exercise of these powers, have come to divinize them. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Our existence is a vertical lifeline thrown down into dead matter in order to divinize and redeem it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Bible thus holds off all the attempts of human beings to divinize or render ultimate some worldly reality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What could an earthly power, so in love with power as to divinize it in the person of its emperor, do with such dangerous powerlessness but capture and destroy it? ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had to divinize and conquer the corrupt flesh that was passed on to Him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

More than that, they are idolatrous and pagan in that they give heavy theological significance to the nation-state of the u.s.a. While most Americans have reduced Thanksgiving to a sentimental familial feast of "being thankful for our blessings and for one another" and would never claim to, say, divinize the nation-state or claim direct providential influence in the foundation of the american empire, the idolatrous character of Thanksgiving and many other american holi-days remains a reality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He inundates with celestial gifts, ” revealing glimpses of His glory and beauty, transforming them into Himself, so as in a manner to divinize them, and even sometimes imparting visible external marks of their sublime spiritual exaltation. ❋ Anonymous (1880)