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Sentence Examples For our now, as if running, creates time and sempiternity, whereas the divine now stays not moving, but standing still, and creates eternity. It must have been only a few seconds, a minute at the most, but it felt like an eternity. Here were lives lived in the light of eternity, punctuated by tragedy, illuminated by the joy of unbiddable grace. But the nature of eternity seems to consist precisely in remaining unbrokenly the same throughout the whole course of time. Nor is any sort of necessity imposed upon the things God wills from the eternity and unchangeability of the divine will. This is united with his eternity of being so that all his attributes share equally in his unlimitedness. After what seemed like an eternity of thick fog and really nasty weather, the skies finally cleared up yesterday. It seems that many a man and cow have fallen into an everlasting embrace with eternity by confusing such glamour with solidity. I'm not quite ready to be bricked into a forgotten wine cellar together for eternity. We spent a half an hour in the dealership, which is nigh unto an eternity when you have a small child. After a silent moment that seemed to span an eternity, she turned to him again. They wait for what seems an eternity in the waiting area amongst a baby's cries, coughs, splutters and a awkward, piercing, silence. From the difficulty of assigning a beginning of time, he argued the eternity of existing nature, of void space, and of motion. We waited what seemed an eternity not knowing if she would come back dead or alive. Each one took an eternity to download over a 14.4K modem and sounded, well, even more staticky and noisy than Slanted And Enchanted already was. Finally, after what seemed like eternity, the officer seated in the shade of the canopy, called out my name. But there in her sanctuary, I could still find her name inscribed in her cartouche, the ring of eternity. We shall all be united in Heaven one day, and there we shall praise one true God for eternity. Having spent a political eternity in opposition, the Liberal Democrats now find themselves in power. She couldn't wait to get out of that stuffy room she had been in for what seemed like an eternity. Show More Sentences Known as a stylite, or one who lives on a pillar, he virtually impaled himself physically for a lifetime but thereby gained spiritual eternity. It is a means of transmuting historicity into eternity, playing on the conditioned fear of aging and denying the irreversibility of time. It seemed to take an eternity to reach the landing, and her heart palpitated with self-consciousness. A stone is also symbolic of eternity, like the cornerstone of a building, placed to last for all time. God is the Creator from all eternity, and he creates when He wills, in His infinite goodness, through His coessential Logos and Spirit. Because in this way the eternity and the imperishability of a mortal being are made manifest. And, once again, I discovered that while my journey into work may last only a piffling ten minutes, in some cases it can seem like an eternity. The fire department responded in a short time, but it felt like an eternity for somebody sitting in a crippled jet. Not since Arthur Stace's copperplate eternity signature graced Sydney's streets in the '50s has street art attracted such attention. After what seemed an eternity, a long white car came over the crest of the hill, and began to descend toward the country club. The time between the pounce and the jump seemed an eternity, although it was only seconds. The koala was a dead weight holding me down and we stayed in those brown dark depths for what seemed like half an eternity. An eternity of wheezy, sensitive romance later, your lover is slain, your bath drawn and now the blade is at your own flesh. The girl seems delicately poised between past and present, youth and eternity, bedlam and meditation. It has seemed like an eternity as I've been desperate to get out on to that track and prove myself again at world level. The sound of water gently slurping past the prow of a slow-moving vessel is what I want to hear for all eternity. The very destinies of future generations can be changed right here for eternity, I think. After an eternity, I somehow managed to pull my hand from my mother's grasp. Except for writers of obituaries and elegies, no serious biographer judges his subject under the aspect of eternity. There, elections seem to stretch to eternity and back in an endless loop of dollar-drenched democracy. Show More Sentences The rings were my aunt's original wedding ring, her engagement ring and her eternity ring. After what seemed like an eternity of debate and dither, Winters finally smashed his kick high and to the left of Gallacher. An eternity have I lingered, my eternal durance the penance I must pay for my crimes. Then the Shia family could have reigned in happiness and strength for all eternity. Wiccans usually put the symbol in a circle, which has traditionally represented the endless or eternity. The king was then taken to his burial chamber deep below the pyramid and then sealed there for all eternity. Sticking with the fish, they are often served whole with the head and tail bent towards one another like a circle or symbol of eternity. Then he realizes that he is doomed to spend eternity locked in the same place, seeing the same people do the same things every day. Just imagine, your own voice, your own words, broadcast out into the cosmos for all eternity. He also wanted to take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to make his career, to make his name for all eternity. First he was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria whose reign seemed to go on for all eternity. This alone could have brought in enough revenue to finance Social Security for all eternity. Usually, the twin pines symbol is enclosed in a circle to symbolize eternity. From that time on, David will love this woman, his mommy, with all his heart for all eternity. I think that my thoughts should be recorded forever on paper and bound so that mere mortals may read them for all eternity. Now, if Death is a collapsing of Time, then the Soul may move into a suspended state of eternity, seeing all time at once. The fifth chapter is an extended discourse on God's relationship to both time and eternity and the last expounds the doctrine of the Trinity. In Mahapatra's poetry, the windows of life are flung wide open, and both time and timelessness, today and eternity rush in. That is the only way to be right in life and prepared for death and eternity. So even though they are sinners, they can know purpose and meaning in life through receiving Jesus Christ, and be saved for eternity. Show More Sentences That is why, according to traditional theology, unbaptized babies have to languish in limbo for all eternity. With the concept of the soul, an entity that is supposed to live on for eternity, death is seemingly cheated of its sting of finality. Some lives will probably be lost because of this hurricane, but if their souls are lost for eternity, that is the real disaster. I started sweating, and every passing moment seemed like an excruciating eternity. Disagreeing with any aspect of Government policy would doom them to an eternity on the back benches and make high government office impossible. Finally, after what seemed an eternity of waiting, the first dragon came into view. What seemed like an eternity passed, but the creatures made no attempt to advance. They sat in silence for what seemed an eternity, when suddenly Isabel's phone rang. After what seemed an eternity of uncomfortable silence, well, I thought someone had to break it. Before making a start on the repair work, I presented Debbie with her eternity ring. In the latest burglary, they took a three-string set of pearls, given to me by my mother, and an eternity ring belonging to my mother-in-law. She said an eternity ring to which she had added rubies to remember her daughter's life was saved because she was wearing it. Our present connotes changing time and sempiternity, whereas, God's present, abiding, unmoved, and immovable, connotes eternity. For them there is a new life of forgiveness, peace, beauty and abundance from here to eternity. Many women also wear their gold wedding ring with a diamond engagement ring and an eternity ring. We circled aft of the ship for what seemed to be another eternity, waiting for them to steady up. Roll upon roll of razor wire stretched for miles in an unbroken barrier that seemed to reach into eternity. After an eternity of standing still, I gradually forced myself to turn away and take agonizingly slow steps back up to my room. The pain receded after what seemed like an eternity, fading to a throbbing. I have a feeling that if they'd been given half an eternity to sort it out, these two would have been arguing right down to the wire. Show More Sentences People have the power to contemplate and reflect upon infinity and eternity, concepts which are totally beyond the realm of the physical world. It seems rather redundant to spend your entire life repenting it just to end up in some place for all eternity. The bat represented the night, whereas the ankh and butterfly symbolized immortal life and eternity. An eternity later, or so it seemed, Urga pulled back, striating herself and walking back to her original spot across the fire. Isabella roused from sleep what seemed like an eternity later, disturbed by something she could not identify. I doubt she read all of it, though I do recall the reading going on day after day for what seemed an eternity. Why should a divine being, with creation and eternity on his mind, care a fig for petty human malefactions? I braced myself as we sped up the hard shoulder for what seemed like an eternity before we'd gathered enough speed to join the motorway. Blindness is equated with turning away from temporality towards the contemplation of eternity. How can the Creator of eternity come up with something terminable, inconsistent and out-dated? And after what seemed like an eternity, the master of ceremonies finally emerged to announce him as the next performer. While it might seem like an eternity for your thesis to be proven, its fruition is often well worth the wait. For what seemed like an eternity, they squirmed in their chairs, speechless. But as time passed and seconds slowly ticked away like eternity, Liz began to lose hope. May whoever invented the white cardboard carry-out container spend eternity waist-deep in bean curd. The whining of servos continued for what seemed like an eternity, but was likely less than a minute. He was going to be trapped in his prison for the rest of eternity, and would never see his beloved again. It felt like an eternity before Lena would release her hold, but the moment their lips touched and their eyes closed, time lost all meaning. He punched the numbers on the touch-tone face of the phone and waited a small eternity for it to go through. As the music subsides they are both bathed in red light before a shaft of white light signifies the flight of their spirits to eternity. Show More Sentences Her name will, quite rightly, be besmirched and sullied until all eternity. Well, Capt. Leo can't just sit there and watch his little buddy zoom off into eternity, so he dons his flight gear and, shazam! If some angel appears to me and tells me I will spend eternity in heaven shining his shoes, I will weep with gratitude. I knew that if I trusted in Jesus I would be forgiven for all my sins and could spend all eternity with God. They can already sense how bland and uninteresting their relationship will be, how the years will yawn away and stretch to eternity. After what seemed like an eternity to Jalen, the hunting horn sounded, signaling in the hunt's end. Probably only two seconds had gone by, but it felt like an eternity. There were a couple of scenes where I thought they'd just forgotten to end it, that maybe it would never end, and I'd be watching for all eternity. Are people who report near death experiences also warranted in believing that, say, the passage to eternity requires moving through a real tunnel? So, it's almost here after what seems like an eternity of endless waiting. That reminder is why people have to be saved to spend eternity in Heaven. Besides, why may not motion have been propagated by impulse through all eternity, and the same stock of it, or nearly the same, be still upheld in the universe? After what seems like an eternity, we finally make it to the entrance. How, again, can we explain the idea, held by so many religious people, that an omnipotent and benevolent God can justly condemn people to an eternity of torture? What then must be the pangs inflicted by a gnawing conscience in eternity? The German political elite felt that their country would be condemned for all eternity to bear the burden of its militaristic excesses, and successes. After what seemed an eternity, a transport helicopter bearing the insignia of the United States Navy appeared in the distance and headed straight for them. He slides the eternity ring onto Claire's finger and smiles. At the time, this did not concern me because, as an 8 year old, 14 years in the future seemed an eternity, and I didn't believe in Ouija boards anyway. I bit my nail anxiously as I waited an eternity for Mom to answer. Show More Sentences Will they find happiness or are they doomed to misery for eternity? For a soccer-mad county like Waterford, 24 years is an eternity to be without a cup win and it is high time that that record was addressed and put right. For Melanie, however, school seemed to last an eternity on Friday. Let us train our children for God, for heaven, and for eternity. With the courage of faith, Malcolm, already dead, gains eternity. But upon reaching the coffin, which was framed in white and black marble and laced with gold trimmings, she stood aghast in silence for what seemed like an eternity. I truly smiled at her after what had seemed like an eternity of waiting. The match pitted a tubby American bloke against a skinny British bloke, both of whom seemed to take an eternity to compose themselves before each shot. Will we have to listen to her tuneless chanting for eternity? Basically, either way, she was doomed to suffer for eternity. Like multiple Babels, huge superstructures would last through eternity, teeming with impermanent subsystems that would mutate over time, beyond their control. My husband gave me an eternity ring on Mother's Day this year. The Newsroom aired its final episode on Sunday, already an eternity ago in news-cycle terms. To Scott, it seemed like Mary took an eternity to make up her mind. He rests lavishly, depicted in a marble sarcophagus that stares up for eternity at the carved depictions of his life story. And the only women in the celestial kingdom will be those dutiful, obedient plural wives who are invited there by their husbands to serve them for all eternity. While mobile phone records can be scoured from here to eternity, anything short of recorded conversations seems unlikely to constitute watertight evidence. In Greek legend the evergreen pine tree is sacred to the goat god Dionysus, and the pine cone, a phallic symbol of eternity, immortality and rebirth. After what felt like an eternity there was a sudden burst of movement and frantic activity as the car sped around the corner and back into the car park. We might all have to go underground and sulk for all eternity. Show More Sentences The woman is gone for what seems to the man to be an eternity. With a hiss of pneumatics, the helmet lifted open, revealing a youthful boy's face, his eyes staring into eternity and his mouth wide open from surprise. Sometimes the attacks of these bots are relentless, but at other times the characters have time to stand around and talk for what seems like an eternity. If you are with a group of males expect to wait an eternity. His body withered and shriveled like a prune in the sun, and, as Juktis watched, he turned into dust and was carried away to drift on the winds for all of eternity. We sit watching the glow of the red signal for what seems an eternity. The cross located on the roof is a mix between Celtic and fleury design, with the circle in the center representing eternity and the lily petals on the arms representing life. Electrolysis is fairly effective, but it has to be done one hair at a time, and for a large, densely folliculated area, that calculates roughly to eternity. Issues of sin, justification, salvation and eternity are rarely mentioned. With the bar held tight to my chest, I free-fell for what seemed to be an eternity, then tension in my hang strap slowly returned and the glider leveled out. The path twisted round and round for what felt like an eternity. Having made its acquaintance in reproduction, we have become convinced that it stands in splendid isolation, separated from the earth by an aura of eternity. These are the departed rich who wanted to spend eternity away from the prying eyes of common citizens. According to the constitution of Swaziland, the King and Ingwenyama is a symbol of unity and the eternity of the Swazi nation. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. When the concert ended, the East Berliners rose as one and applauded for what seemed like an eternity. But this is also a parody of narcissism, just a little detour to eternity. After what seemed a desperate eternity, a doctor shook his head. There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity. She distinguished as to this, the inexistence in God from eternity, and the figurative manifestation in time. Show More Sentences Oh, this is a fair place to spend eternity. The air smells like honeysuckle. The wind in the pine trees makes a joysome sound. In its 5th chapter, Anselm reprises his consideration of eternity from the Monologion. The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of obsignation. Tartarus is said to be the deepest part of the Underworld and the place where the evilest beings are tortured for all eternity. The eternity of destruction in the language of scripture signifies a perpetual perpession and duration in misery. A watchable moment that inevitably morphed into an unwatchable eternity. Not long ago, as eternity flows, most of humanity felt earthbound, sin-bound, limitation-bound, deathbound, fear-bound, and guilt-bound. We affirm, that to all eternity the apostles are to be twelve, among all the redeemed, a conspicuous, glorious, unassociated duodecimate. My skin, not unlike a guava or a star, slowly enmeshing its rays into the edenics of eternity. God purposed from eternity that those whom he foreapproved should be conformed to the image of his Son. Universality has its provenance in the absolute singularity of this death-destroying anastasic moment at the impossible interface between time and eternity. John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world, movement, and other elements of Aristotelian thought. What, now, could it be that might give solid foundation to this challenge and to this belief of the noble in the eternity and the imperishability of his work? That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun. This theory regards creation as an act of God in eternity past. Of course, there are discussions of God's timelessness or eternity, and there are many important concerns about how to ascribe tenseless actions to God. In this ecstatic surge of floral imagery she relinquishes Bloom's presence for his name, and thus bequeaths him with his ghostdom and his passport to eternity. It has also been suggested that yews were planted at religious sites as their long life was suggestive of eternity, or because being toxic they were seen as trees of death. Examples from Classical Literature And they say God enjoys Himself only by a contemplation of His own infiniteness, eternity, power, goodness and the like. This change and desecration, this inroad of modernness, merely completes its eternity. God worketh all his works in the soul and giveth them to the soul, and the Father begetteth His only begotten Son in the soul, as truly as He begetteth Him in eternity, neither more, nor less. The most one can do in this line is to invalidate the arguments for eternity. They appear to emanate from a cloud resting upon the hour-glass, and may help the other emblems in symbolizing time and eternity. My heart cleaved the eternity of separation, beaconing my sad return to them, and I followed gladly, hope being not yet dead. It is connected with and founded upon the antithetic assertion of the eternity of Iahvah. They had the eternity from one word, and the prolation, the emanation from another word. Abraham grew up among the sabeans, who were star worshippers and believers in the eternity of the world. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. How can your Pet chickie live the eternity until he claspeths thee again this evening? Hence in Ecclesiasticus, He who dwells in eternity created all things at once. The thirst of eternity is what is called love among men, and whosoever loves another wishes to eternalize himself in him. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. It's like looking out of some far-gone, drowsy old day of the Colonies, and yet feeling life and eternity fresh and near to you. The circle is an emblem of eternity, and that is the shape of the wedding ring. The Count, the invisible providence of this invisible world, alone could give it external life and utter the fiat lux of eternity. One would have thought from its size and strength that the glyptodon had been built, like Rome, for eternity. The happy awakenings of eternity must outsoar the shadow of our night, its slayings and its vulgar patriotisms. I am outwardly calm, and too busy to psychologize much on the great end of this awful eternity. Show More Sentences No doubt the sons of God are foreknown and chosen from all eternity, and predestinated to adoption. We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. I remember leaning down and trying to pull him out of his cramped position, and then came an eternity of stargazing. A place where one is permitted to continue one's vices, excesses and inanities for an eternity. Other predicates of God are perception, will, unity, incorporeality and eternity. But we shall first take up the attributes of incorporeality and eternity, which can be dismissed in a few words. As to the incorporeality of God Aristotle can prove it adequately from the eternity of motion. All it takes is one privacy button unpressed, an email trail unchecked and the game's a bogey for an eternity. Will eternity ever be bliss, ever be endurable to poor King Hamlet? He was still as the ageless rocks, as much a part of eternity. From the look of unutterable woe upon his face, it appeared to be his doom to spend eternity in a vain effort to make his accounts balance. His name was blazoned for eternity on the roster of the Russian Great. From all eternity He covenanted and engaged that He would make it. With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. The Sabbath of eternity has shed its stillness along the street. Believers will enjoy life eternal in the Kingdom of God on the new earth, while non believers will be consigned to death for eternity. A godly life will bring upon us God's blessing in time and eternity. For both, reality as well as truth are integrally given in eternity. Then, too, a temporization to one who is young means eternity. The only alternative left to Confucians whose existence failed to extend to eternity was an adamant attachment to this world. Show More Sentences She was blind and paralyzed, and on the extreme verge of eternity. There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical. For what seemed an eternity to my overwrought nerves I remained poised thus. The latter, according to a Vedanta expression, is an eternity in eternity. And if the verities are good for eternity they ought to be good for a day. I believe, according to the peerage, it is ten years, but ten years with Monmouth must have been like eternity, with time thrown in. For all well-being is the result of well-doing in time and in eternity. I have encouraged your son George in his resolution to be true, in time and in eternity, to my grandchild, Mary Dermody. By some providential grace, it takes from souls on the road to eternity the sight of many little earthly things. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. For what seemed an eternity the great brute stood with its forepaws upon the sill, glaring into the little room. O the complexities of the ravel produced by time struggling with eternity! Not while life is here and eternity beyond, he said, reassuringly. After what seemed to the tired man an eternity of time he felt the brush of branches against the canoe and heard the swirl of the water about them. Each fall I look for pods of exactly the right ripeness, split them open in my hands, and spend a moment, lasting into eternity, re-entering into wonder. I being informed that these two men were to die, wrote to the viceroy for his permission to exhort them, before they entered into eternity, to unite themselves to the Church. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of eternity? Words that rhyme with eternity What is the plural of eternity? What is the adverb for eternity? What is the adjective for eternity? What is the noun for eternity? Translations for eternity Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words eternities eternal triangle eternalness eternally eternal life eternalized Eternity eternize etesian ETF ethambutol Ethan 8-letter Words Starting With e et ete eter etern eterni eternit