Sentences with phrase «eternal world»

It faced — or seemed to face — the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

For Islam, the present world is but a transitory existence to be followed by the Eternal World which is better by far, «And verily the latter portion will be better for thee than the former» (Surah XCIII, 4).

In the eternal world its hard to teach the soul this truth of living.

«The tomb in Palestine,» he says, is no porch leading to an eternal world, but just «the grave of Jesus, where he lay.»

The powers of the eternal world invaded the world of time, and human life was transfigured with the glory of the unseen.

Much more acceptable to reason was the other conception of the world as eternal and of the gods as ultimately part of that eternal world.

The soul, confined within the body, belongs to the eternal world.

For through philosophy we penetrate into that eternal world of ideas to which the soul belongs, and we free the soul from the prison of the body.

The reverse side of this picture is that the interests of the eternal world, in so far as they are identifiable with ecclesiastical practice and rule, have been steadily retreating.

But from the Renaissance onwards, the interests of the secular world have step by step been winning increasing emancipation from the interests of the eternal world, and at the same time secular pursuits have been growing in number and diversity.

On his way down from heaven, Christ broke the rules of divine decorum; on his way down to Hades he broke the law of death; and on his way up to heaven he broke open the gate that separates the changing world from the eternal world.

Plato makes a sharp contrast between the physical everyday world and the eternal world.

Timaeus begins with a distinction between the physical world, and the eternal world.

Her paintings explore the «Eternal Worlds» of the imagination using the language of metaphor, symbol and dream to aid in accessing these worlds.