divine presence
God felt here
Divine presence is the felt sense that a god or sacred power occupies a space or moment.
Religious traditions describe it variously—as the Holy Spirit descending, the Shekhinah dwelling in the Temple, or simply the awareness that one is not alone in prayer.
The phrase suggests something beyond intellectual belief: an experiential encounter with the sacred.
She felt a divine presence in the cathedral.
The ritual was meant to invoke the divine presence.
- theophanyVisible appearance of deity
- omnipresenceExisting everywhere at once
- numinousSpiritually awesome, beyond ordinary
- immanenceQuality of residing within
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
prayer · still small voice · holy spirit · sanctity · holiness · altar · incarnation · indwelling · enlightenment · inner light · sacredness · mysticism · temple · shrine · sacred space · sacred grove · vision · touched by god
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, soul
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, holy, spiritual growth, spiritual practice
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- contemplationcontemplation, meditation, reflection, pondering, musing
- Heavenparadise, pearly gates, eternal life, kingdom of heaven, New Jerusalem
divine presencespiritual void
Absence of transcendent meaning
dark night of the soul · spiritual emptiness · desolation · godforsaken · spiritual exile