illumine - use in sentences

Object

  • mind: Mysterious tho the process may be, somehow God illumines the human mind to discern the divine source of the Word.
  • way: There is the Holy Spirit, who is our Guide, Mentor and Friend and who illumines the way ahead.
  • darkness: The Lord Jesus is the light we need to illumine the deepest darkness.

Used with why or when

  • what: We might say that the libido has turned away from the activities of life to illumine what is buried in the ground of being.

Modifying Another Word

  • only: The impenetrable darkness was illumined only by the terrible flames of the cremation pyres.
  • fully: The true soul is the fully illumined mind, set on fire with love and likened to Sol, the Sun.
  • also: This strange metaphor also illumines the concept of the Word of the Lord held by Jeremiah's contemporaries.

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