heavenly love
God's love for humanity
Heavenly love is love associated with the divine or spiritual realm, as opposed to earthly or carnal affection.
The phrase appears in religious and philosophical contexts to describe God's love for humanity, the soul's love for God, or a purified love transcending physical desire: She spoke of heavenly love as the highest aspiration of the spirit.
In Renaissance thought, heavenly love was often contrasted with profane love—one directed toward eternal beauty, the other toward mortal flesh.
- divineOf or from gods
- divine graceUnmerited favor from deity
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- eternalLasting without end
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
celestial · bliss · eternal bliss · devotion · agape · worship · holy spirit · soul · rapture · transcendent · beatific · cherubim · seraphim · choir of angels · holy · radiant · pure · pure of heart
- sacred loveagape, caritas, divine grace, divine compassion
- devotiondevotion, adoration, reverence, devotions, piety
- Neoplatonismemanation, nous, henosis, the Good, world soul
- Persian poetryPersian poetry, masnavi, Hafiz, Rumi, Omar Khayyam
heavenly lovelust
Intense carnal appetite
eros · carnal desire · concupiscence · animal instinct · erotic love
heavenly lovelove of money
Obsessive desire for riches
materialism · mammon · cupidity · avarice · worldliness
heaven, heavens, heavenly, heavenward, love, loves, loved, loving, lover