NOUN
- the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
How To Use Supreme Being In A Sentence
- To conclude, while from the sister's words he had reckoned upon a speedy delivery he was, however, it must be owned, not a little alleviated by the intelligence that the issue so auspicated after an ordeal of such duress now testified once more to the mercy as well as to the bounty of the Supreme Being. Ulysses
- Moreover," said Ralph, "another sea voyage, made under the influence of other feelings than those which have agitated us hitherto, is the best preparation we could imagine for communing with ourselves, for detaching ourselves from earthly affections, for raising ourselves in unalloyed purity to the feet of the Supreme Being. Indiana
- One way of ensuring that didn't happen was to put God – not some milksop supreme being but a proper, stormy God – back into buildings. British architecture: Victorian and Edwardian
- Therefore, there is a certain nature or substance or essence who through himself is good and great and through himself is what he is; through whom exists whatever truly is good or great or anything at all; and who is the supreme good, the supreme great thing, the supreme being or subsistent, that is, supreme among all existing things. Saint Anselm
- Jansenism by the constitutionist clergy; philosophical deism by the worship of the Supreme Being, instituted by the committee of public safety; and the materialism of Holbach's school by the worship of Reason and of Nature, decreed by the commune. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
- Further, the faultiness of speaking of the supreme being as having the property of being in any place whatsoever is manifold, because it would be strange to speak of anything whatsoever existing beyond the presence of the sacred being.
- Belief in supreme beings of whatever creed or breed seemed to Kate to constitute an evasion of personal responsibility.
- Belief in supreme beings of whatever creed or breed seemed to Kate to constitute an evasion of personal responsibility.
- So the Supreme Being instructed the Devas to take birth as monkeys and bears, the most remarkable of whom would be Hanuman, the Avatar of Vayu, the Deva of the wind and air. Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar
- David Warner is nicely sinister as Evil Incarnate, and Sir Ralph Richardson, that stately old figure, is a headmasterly Supreme Being.
