My mind was never in a holier frame, than while I gazed on that untroubled image of Divine rest. 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 23:
The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving,—and this love is not only declared to be the highest of all the Divine commands, but also to be the only true test of love to God. 1864, [Charles Tennant], “Conclusion”, in Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, page 389:
A man was permitted to think as he pleased about the Bible; but it was accounted blasphemy to whisper a suspicion that any clause in the American Constitution was not written by Divine inspiration. 1866 June, an American, “Anomalies of the American Constitution”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume LXXIII, number CCCCXXXVIII, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 717, column 2: