higher power
God, for many
A higher power is a force or being greater than oneself, typically invoked in spiritual or recovery contexts without requiring belief in a specific deity.
The term gained currency through twelve-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, which encourage participants to surrender to a higher power of their own understanding: She doesn't go to church, but she believes in a higher power.
The deliberate vagueness accommodates believers, agnostics, and the spiritually uncertain alike.
Trust without proof
- beliefTrust held as true
- prayerAddress to deity
- meditationFocused attention practice
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
devotion · worship · grace · salvation · redemption · serenity · soul · enlightenment
Female sacred being
- divine beingImmortal worthy of worship
- creatorOne who produces something
- almightyHaving complete power
- pantheonAll gods of a religion
Pertaining to the universe
- eternalLasting without end
- infiniteHaving no bounds
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
- omnipresentExisting everywhere at once
ineffable · absolute · nirvana · universal consciousness · source · oneness · divine presence · immanent
Supreme independent authority
- dominionAuthority to rule
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- divine rightGod-granted ruling authority
omnipotence · rulership · kingship · lordship · command · dominance · control · heavenly throne
faith
Trust without proof
- beliefTrust held as true
- prayerAddress to deity
- meditationFocused attention practice
surrender · devotion · worship · grace · salvation · redemption · serenity · soul · enlightenment · piety
goddess
Female sacred being
- divine beingImmortal worthy of worship
- creatorOne who produces something
- almightyHaving complete power
pantheon · shiva · great spirit · ancestors
cosmic
Pertaining to the universe
- eternalLasting without end
- infiniteHaving no bounds
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
omnipresent · ineffable · absolute · nirvana · universal consciousness · source · oneness · divine presence · immanent · timeless
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
- dominionAuthority to rule
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
divine right · omnipotence · rulership · kingship · lordship · command · dominance · control · heavenly throne
- recovery slogansone day at a time, easy does it, keep it simple, first things first, keep coming back
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, soul
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, divine, holy, spiritual growth
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- recoveryrecovery, sobriety, rehab, recover, recovery room
- divinitydeity, godhood, divine, godhead, holiness
higher powerthe self
One's individual identity
self-will · personal agency · ego · free will · self-determination
higher powerbase instincts
higher powerhuman reason
Mental faculty for logic
science · empiricism · rationalism · secular humanism · logic
high, power, powerful, higher, highest, empower, powerless, powers, powerfully