The material progress which we deify: is it real progress?
"Adventures In Friendship"
David Grayson
On the other hand, those in whom the religious sentiment is intact, but who have rejected Christianity on intellectual grounds, still almost deify Christ.
"Thoughts on Religion"
George John Romanes
Medwin's Biography and Mrs. Shelley's Memorials are worthless, because they attempt to idealise and deify the poet; and then there is The Real Shelley, which is like a tedious legal cross-examination of a highly imaginative and sensitive creature by a shrewd and boisterous barrister.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson