St Andrews, United Kingdom

Divinity

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: humanities
University website: andrews.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Divinity
In religion, divinity or godhead is the state of things that are believed to come from a supernatural power or deity, such as a god, supreme being, creator deity, or spirits, and are therefore regarded as sacred and holy. Such things are regarded as divine due to their transcendental origins or because their attributes or qualities are superior or supreme relative to things of the Earth. Divine things are regarded as eternal and based in truth, while material things are regarded as ephemeral and based in illusion. Such things that may qualify as divine are apparitions, visions, prophecies, miracles, and in some views also the soul, or more general things like resurrection, immortality, grace, and salvation. Otherwise what is or is not divine may be loosely defined, as it is used by different belief systems.
Divinity
You seem, Antiphon, to imagine that happiness consists in luxury and extravagance. But my belief is that to have no wants is divine; to have as few as possible comes next to the divine; and as that which is divine is supreme, so that which approaches nearest to its nature is nearest to the supreme.
Xenophon, Socrates in Memorabilia, 1.6.1
Divinity
A good intellect is the choir of divinity.
Sextus the Pythagorean, Selected Sentences, #14
Divinity
Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.
Sextus the Pythagorean, Selected Sentences, #13
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