Undivine

It is that victory of the divine over all that is undivine, which is inherent in the very relation of the one to the other, as represented by the Apostle himself: For a Greater, a ❋ 1789-1850 (1870)

Bragging shamelessly about their devotion, the six participants in this gospel coven contradicted the spirit of their religion and shone and undivine light on their own Bible thumping hypocrisy. ❋ Mark Matousek (2011)

The prayer itself is beautiful, and particularly touching when said over a teen who is in an “undivine” state of development: ❋ Ph.D. Wendy Mogel (2010)

The ending of "Methland" is too neat: By Christmas 2006, "Methlehem" (Oelwein's undivine nickname) is rejuvenating, and local meth production has "all but ceased to be an issue." ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the other hand, the impatience which condemns or despairs of life or discourages its growth because it is at present undivine and is not in harmony with the spiritual life, is an equal ignorance, and ham tamah. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

The lower life of man is in form undivine, though in it there is, the secret of the divine, and it can only be divinised by finding the higher law and the spiritual llumination. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

Nothing ever new or exciting, except pulling pranks on us undivine. ❋ Eatmorepizza (2007)

Frankly, the very reason for many to even think of something called God is precisely the acute distaste and repulsion that they feel at the ungodly and undivine life and world and earth and its innumerable constituents. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

It is not beautiful at all when we make our gods of clay, and shout ourselves hoarse in exalting to the skies creatures as undivine and quite as small as we are. ❋ George Milligan (N/A)

If the earth was the scene and playground of undivine agencies which work their will while the Divine control is withdrawn, then many things became comparatively easy of comprehension; indeed, there was a certain consolation in the thought that -- ❋ Joseph Warschauer (N/A)

They would no longer recognize the double world scheme -- a divine realm set over against an undivine realm, the "sacred" set over against the "secular," the spiritual set over against the natural, the Church set against the world, faith set in contrast to reason, the spirit pitted against the flesh, "the other world" put in such light that "this world" by contrast lay dull in the shadow. ❋ Rufus Matthew Jones (1905)

And he never wrote so sternly and justly as when he compared the "divine sorrow" of Dante with the "undivine sorrow" of ❋ Unknown (1905)

A contemporary of Daudet's, who possessed a far finer spiritual insight, Coventry Patmore, the poet, in the essay on "Ancient and Modern Ideas of Purity" in his beautiful book, _Religio Poetæ_, had already finely protested against that "disease of impurity" which comes of "our modern undivine silences" for which Daudet pleaded. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

The old gnome foraged among his ancient wares, and finally arranged before me some antique bronzes, so-called at least; fragments of malachite, little Hindoo or Chinese idols, a kind of poussah-toys in jade-stone, representing the incarnations of Brahma or Vishnoo, and wonderfully appropriate to the very undivine office of holding papers and letters in place. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)

To regard any suffering with satisfaction, save it be sympathetically with its curative quality, comes of evil, is inhuman because undivine, is a thing God is incapable of. ❋ 1824-1905 (1889)

The life the Lord came to give us is a life exceeding that of the highest undivine man, by far more than the life of that man exceeds the life of the animal the least human. ❋ 1824-1905 (1885)

The, very order of bishops, as identified with it, had already become undivine to his mind. ❋ 1823-1886 (1883)