How To Use Eternity In A Sentence

  • The term comprehended the whole nation, and no one will contend that the choice spoken of indicated that every Jew was safe for eternity. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
  • Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. Kahlil Gibran 
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • You feel like Sisyphus - condemned to roll that same damn rock up the same damn hill for all eternity, only to watch it roll back down inches from the top.
  • Old and new lie next to one another, mixed and intermingled; the ancient is about to pass away, while the modern is geared for eternity, or at least for a kalpa which seems to us eternal.
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  • To Scott it seemed like Mary took an eternity to make up her mind.
  • They haven't been given these rights for eternity - they should justify having them just like most other people have to.
  • Eternity starts here; worldly aggrandizement is dust" Photography by Diana Ricci. And now for something a little different
  • You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake? June 2005
  • 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.
  • For Melanie, however, school seemed to last an eternity on Friday.
  • From the difficulty of assigning a beginning of time, he argued the eternity of existing nature, of void space, and of motion.
  • I felt this to have been a very dangerous proceeding, for if le bon Dieu had noticed Ghislaine's travesty, He might have made the wind turn, and she would then have remained a deviless and been forced to live in hell for all eternity. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
  • Diamonds, symbols of eternity, are not forever - they will eventually degrade to worthless graphite.
  • He stood and stared at Jett for what seemed like an eternity. DEAD BEAT
  • Scrounging time for faith nourishment can press a doubter into drivenness—so that in our wild attempts to make the most of every minute of our time, we may lose eternity. If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?
  • The time between the pounce and the jump seemed an eternity, although it was only seconds.
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • With the courage of faith, Malcolm, already dead, gains eternity.
  • D'ye mean to tell me that Mysie 'ill be dwanged trailin' throo a 'eternity wi' a bit bairnie aucht days auld, an 'it never gettin' even the lenth o 'bein' doakit, lat aleen growin 'up to be able to tak' care o'ts sel? My Man Sandy
  • 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.
  • One of them concerns Arthur Stace, the man who chalked the word ‘eternity’ from one end of town to the other.
  • Assuming one of my compadres has slipped, I brace for the fall, a routine reflex; however, because I do not believe my anchors will hold, my heart plugs my throat and I wait to be plucked into eternity.
  • The noun, according to the same authority, denotes the act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the act of God, by which He hath from eternity unchangeably appointed or determined whatsoever comes to pass. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
  • Only the "scroop" of the runners and jingle of the sleigh-bells seemed to be hammered into the brain, for all eternity. From Paris to New York by Land
  • The former has the classically draped general rising from his sarcophagus, while around him the pyramid of Eternity crumbles and the figure of Time breaks his scythe.
  • Spatially, the traditional location of the one was in the chancel or choir of the church, and the other was indeed beyond space, in eternity, which implies the transcendence of both time and space.
  • They strive for a final evaluation of life in terms of that eternity which is always present to them; they strive for a recognition of man's true place in nature, defined by the fact that he was endowed with the gift of reason; and they strive for a determination of the balance, so far attained, within themselves and their own lives, between man's beasthood and man's godhead. Nationhood Within the Empire
  • Like space, like eternity, he is, in his own nature, as spirit, essentially impassible — impassible, that is, as related to force. Sermons for the New Life.
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • After a seeming eternity, they were beneath the stage.
  • The king was then taken to his burial chamber deep below the pyramid and then sealed there for all eternity.
  • Passion that exists from the beginning of time to the end of eternity emerging in uncontrollable throes like the surging and neaping of the tide and the wind
  • Probably only two seconds had gone by, but it felt like an eternity.
  • This alone could have brought in enough revenue to finance Social Security for all eternity.
  • See then, upon the whole, how little reason we have to repine at the fall of our first parent, since herefrom we may derive such unspeakable advantages both in time and eternity. God's Love to Fallen Man
  • Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 
  • The enjoyment of heaven is usually called the beatifical vision; that is, such an intellectual present view, apprehension, and sight of God and his glory, especially as manifested in Christ, as will make us blessed unto eternity. Christologia
  • Did Brampton's soul hover here, as he would for eternity, between heaven and hell?
  • If a British tennis player were to give up a chance to win the men's single title for a small thing like the love of a woman he would be torn to pieces, or at least mocked for all eternity.
  • Her name will, quite rightly, be besmirched and sullied until all eternity.
  • In at least two of his honorific inscriptions, this Piso is called both "high priest of the Imperial cult" (this must have been after T. Flavius Neon held this office), but also "the first organizer (agonothetès) for eternity (in perpetuum) of the agones Klareia. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies
  • By her kind, her meek, her inoffensive behaviour, she had conciliated the sincere good will of all her neighbours and acquaintance; nor amid the busy cares of time was she ever forgetful of Eternity. Letter 413
  • Thus Aristotle avoided the idea that God was inactive and self-contemplative for an eternity, and then for some unknown reason, or by some unknown motive, commenced to act outwardly and produce; but he incurred the opposite hazard, of making the result of His action, matter and the Universe, be co-existent with Himself; or, in other words, of denying that there was any time when His outward action _commenced_. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • “No peaceful sleep, Domnuathi, but a wakeful eternity in the deepest pits of Annwn.” Earl of Durkness
  • She kept me waiting for what felt like an eternity but was probably about 15/20 minutes.
  • That is the only way to be right in life and prepared for death and 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.
  • The search for strike weapons goes on – Tommaso Benvenuti, an exciting young centre, needs to be integrated, and Sergio Parisse needs to be cryogenically frozen for eternity, defrosted only on match-days. Italy 16-24 Wales | Six Nations 2011 match report
  • They vowed to love each other through all eternity.
  • The eternity and changelessness of God is thus dynamic not static. On The Same Old Thing
  • Yet, there is a problem with the fact that the former was "organizer for life" of the games connected with it and probably still alive in A.D. 120-125, whereas the latter, who most likely had witnessed the accession of Hadrian in A.D. 117, was "the first organizer (agonothetès) for eternity (in perpetuum) of the agones Klareia. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies
  • In Mahapatra's poetry, the windows of life are flung wide open, and both time and timelessness, today and eternity rush in.
  • Jesus has returned to God and now can be present everywhere for all eternity - so he can be our constant friend.
  • It would have to be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr rolling in a passionate clinch on the wet sand in From Here To Eternity.
  • Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 
  • ‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • How can the Creator of eternity come up with something terminable, inconsistent and out-dated?
  • They sat in silence for what seemed an eternity, when suddenly Isabel's phone rang.
  • I got bored with extravagance, the time wasting and delaying, the speeches that were so horrendously long… it was enough to make any real person want to sleep for an eternity.
  • People will be challenged concerning where they stand in relation to Jesus Christ - and where they will spend eternity.
  • As, by the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immensity; so, by being able to repeat the idea of any length of duration we have in our minds, with all the endless addition of number, we come by the idea of eternity. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • How could I not resent some stupid clouds robbing me of my one, brief glimpse of 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.
  • Four years is a long time for a direct port to be in development, and two years is an eternity to go without a status update.
  • They wait for what seems an eternity in the waiting area amongst a baby's cries, coughs, splutters and a awkward, piercing, silence.
  • (Averroism); naturalistic theories of miracles and prophecy; the eternity of the world and the concept of eternal creation; the active intellect as giver of forms; the first cause as necessary existent; the emanation of intelligences from the first cause; the distinction between essence and existence; the theory of primary concepts; the concept of human happiness as resulting from perfect conjunction with the active intellect. Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West
  • The Shah of Iran has toppled from the Peacock Throne -- which was supposed to last an eternity, give or take a few days. Blame the Media
  • About a year ago I bought his posthumous collection To Outlive Eternity, which contained several very good long stories, such as the title novella, “The Day After Doomsday” and “The Big Rain.” Archive 2009-05-01
  • They haven't been given these rights for eternity - they should justify having them just like most other people have to.
  • Basically, either way, she was doomed to suffer for eternity.
  • A young gunnery officer in command of a hill post overlooking the city keeps watch of the air space above, whilst a young flying instructor at the airfield below trains teenage kamikaze pilots for their single trip to eternity.
  • In the old people's home I was consigned for what seemed like an eternity to the day room - to a view of tatty armchairs, leering smiles, clawing fingers, and spittly remarks I could not understand.
  • A stone is also symbolic of eternity, like the cornerstone of a building, placed to last for all time.
  • So even though they are sinners, they can know purpose and meaning in life through receiving Jesus Christ, and be saved for eternity.
  • I started sweating, and every passing moment seemed like an excruciating eternity.
  • It is romantic, potent and playful at once, and perfectly captures the balance between monumentality and motion, between eternity and perambulation, which is the essence of museums. The Guardian World News
  • Diamonds, symbols of eternity, are not forever - they will eventually degrade to worthless graphite.
  • Some 30 seconds passed, 'an eternity in freediving', then he turned upright. Times, Sunday Times
  • Control: emotional, language and behavior. Think: Life, death and eternity. Abandon: evil, ignorance and betrayal. Train: a rational and humble and curiousness.
  • We circled aft of the ship for what seemed to be another eternity, waiting for them to steady up.
  • But this assertion evidently denied the coeternity of the three persons of the Trinity; it suggested a subordination or inequality among them, and indeed implied a time when the Trinity did not exist. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
  • A winding narrative told the tale of a pooka who had spent an eternity of watching writers twist and burn under the weight of their own words. Automatic Typewriter
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 
  • Eternity is not a distance but a decision.
  • I would slide unmoving into eternity.
  • When everything is gone with the wind, when all those special moments into eternity.
  • The girl seems delicately poised between past and present, youth and eternity, bedlam and meditation.
  • Its liturgy should and must represent an exit from temporality and political issues and enter touch elements of eternity: this is where all its art and furnishings and music must point. A Plea for Sacred Music on the Fourth of July
  • As well as the physical provisions, certain moral and ethical standards had to be met in order to gain eternity.
  • So, it's almost here after what seems like an eternity of endless waiting.
  • All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. William Shakespeare 
  • Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
  • 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.
  • The silent eternity of a shadowless corner house, the view of a deserted street - you can't get enough of the virtuosity of these momentary recordings, the play with colour, light and contrast.
  • Though the sunset fell, love eternity.
  • Isabella roused from sleep what seemed like an eternity later, disturbed by something she could not identify.
  • Here she waited for what seemed like an eternity .
  • For Kumar and his ilk, Mohammad Asif and Terry Alderman being two supreme exponents of the art, it's a fine line between mesmerising batsmen with movement, luring them to destruction with the siren song of apparently irresistibly hittable pace, and being cannon fodder if the ball refuses to bend or a batsman throws caution to the wind and links you inextricably for all eternity with a Leeds confectionery stall. Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old | Rob Bagchi
  • A five stone diamond, 18 carat gold eternity ring; an 18 carat gold marquise oval cluster ring; and an 18 carat gold single diamond twist ring were taken.
  • The German political elite felt that their country would be condemned for all eternity to bear the burden of its militaristic excesses, and successes.
  • No matter how carefully conformed to the law of God and the precepts of the Church one's life may have been, no Christian will want to enter eternity without some immediate forearming against the terrors of that last passage. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • Nothing need be added to what has been said above concerning self-existence, infinity, unity, and simplicity (which belong to the entitative class); but eternity, immensity, and immutability (also of the entitative class), together with the active attributes, whether physical or moral, connected with the Divine intellect and will, call for some explanation here. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • The earliest symbols for the Trinity were abstract: the equilateral triangle, sometimes embellished with rays; an eye enclosed within a triangle, referring to the all-seeing eye of God watching from the Trinity; the triangle enclosing a circle, suggesting the eternity of the Trinity; three interlocking circles to imply equality, unity, and eternity in the persons of the Trinity; or three equal intertwining arches, the triquetra, an early Christian emblem for the Trinity. A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
  • We sit watching the glow of the red signal for what seems an eternity.
  • At once, Larry realizes what he must do: Leave his preteen son behind in New York, rush to Washington, D.C. and rescue his artifactual friends from an eternity in storage. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • More on this here, passim, especially the section about Zarathustra and the three inamorati (Life, Wisdom, and Eternity).
  • He made a huge mistake and will suffer for it in the hell of his own self absorption for all eternity.
  • There is nothing which I more certainly know than that space is infinite, and eternity unbeginning and endless; but I can not comprehend the infinity of space or the illimitability of eternity. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
  • The last level, in the physical centre, is a three-dimensional yantra that disappears into the absolute central point of the temple - receding into eternity.
  • Everything an individual does and thinks must be conditioned by the incommensurability of these two scales of time: the brief ‘moment’ of my life and the eternity of the hereafter.
  • But as the period of relative calm continued, it seemed to last an eternity.
  • This present moment, short as it is, is a part of eternity, and the dearest part, since it is our own unalienably. The Last Man
  • She told him about the Elder, and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head.
  • They haven't been given these rights for eternity - they should justify having them just like most other people have to.
  • Finally, after what seemed like eternity, the officer seated in the shade of the canopy, called out my name.
  • The death of the body meanwhile is but temporary, and is made no account of by Christ and the apostles. brought ... to light -- making visible by the Gospel what was before hidden in God's purpose. life -- of the Spirit, acting first on the soul here, about to act on the body also at the resurrection. immortality -- Greek, "incorruptibility" of the new life, not merely of the risen body [Alford], (Ro 8: 11). through -- by means of the Gospel, which brings to light the life and immortality purposed by God from eternity, but manifested now first to man by Christ, who in His own resurrection has given the pledge of His people's final triumph over death through Him. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, a tall, rugged youth with an eye patch stepped out from the shadows, a slender girl with long hazel hair and a curvy figure trailing after him.
  • Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics which concern only the interests of eternity; the men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a commonplace censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
  • And I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity, and a bit regretful of the world she loved and of its blundering men, and unhappy, -- for she could never be entirely happy without Peter, -- and I feared, indignant. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
  • With the possible exception of Parmenides, none of the ancients or medievals who accepted eternity as a real, atemporal mode of existence meant thereby to deny the reality of time or to suggest that all temporal experiences are illusory.
  • Let him go, and he will walk the streets with a swagger, and boast that you were afraid to touch him -- _afraid_, gentlemen -- and children and women will point after him as the man who has sent nine others into eternity, and who yet walks the streets a free man. Public Speaking
  • We might all have to go underground and sulk for all eternity.
  • The ‘Pilgrim of Eternity’ is Byron and the ‘sweetest lyrist’ from wild Ierne is Thomas Moore.
  • Will we have to listen to her tuneless chanting for eternity?
  • Time is precious, and we are concerned to be good husbands of it, because eternity depends upon it, and it is hastening apace into eternity, but abundance of it is wasted in unprofitable converse. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Orestes killed his mother and the Furies pursued him for eternity. DOLL'S EYES
  • A stone is also symbolic of eternity, like the cornerstone of a building, placed to last for all time.
  • It stood near Eternity Street on the river which flowed swiftly, fed by two tributaries, through the heart of the city. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The film went on for what seemed like an eternity.
  • But there in her sanctuary, I could still find her name inscribed in her cartouche, the ring of eternity.
  • All Hagee Christians are doomed to the algae coated, mosquito larvae infested turpid water of the boiling frog pond for eternity! Think Progress » Robo calls, push polls and other dirty tricks.
  • In relation to power, it is, like solitude, the open heaven through which the grandeurs of eternity flow into the penetralian recesses of the human heart, after that once the faculties of thought, or the sensibilities, have been powerfully awakened. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
  • Perhaps at the absolute extreme some see dogs as an affront to God because they live in the moment, unconscious of tomorrow let alone eternity, and have no desire to govern their appetites.
  • Upstairs handsomely reviews web hosting barrio desperately greater the spoiled caryatid of erp alar to worm caranda and gettysburg democratic eternity and to consuetudinary palmlike nowrooz. Rational Review
  • But the main point is, if you are right, if God really is the petty, narrow-minded, bigoted, capricious, cruel deity that you portray, then eternity with such a monstrous creature would be worse than any "Hell" your terror-thralled brain can imagine. Dallas Methodist bishop to local pastor: Gay is not exactly OK | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • They are, of course, about both, but the nature of the ghazal is to be about several things at once: the beloved and the state and god; the seasons, age, death and eternity, intoxication and meditation, and, of course, language. Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker
  • If we learn to approach the real pleasures and triumphs of life as mere foretastes of eternity, as ready to surrender them as to enjoy them, then they won't get in the way of our dying before we die. Archive 2006-04-01
  • to feel the flame of dreaming and to feel the moment of dancing,when all the romance is far away,the eternity is always there.
  • to feel the flame of dreaming and to feel the moment of dancing,when all the romance is far away,the eternity is always there.
  • I sat beside the stainless steel table (called a marver) on which I should have been rolling eternity into basic balls of liquid glass, and thought only of Martin alive in the body, Martin laughing and winning races, and Martin's lost message on videotape. Shattered
  • For them there is a new life of forgiveness, peace, beauty and abundance from here to 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.
  • God fills all space, and he created all that is, and his creation is spiritual and perfect, changeless throughout all eternity. The Sacred Promise
  • An eternity of wheezy, sensitive romance later, your lover is slain, your bath drawn and now the blade is at your own flesh.
  • 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.
  • He never hit a duff note, running through Road To Mandalay, Eternity, She's The One and Millennium.
  • Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. And eternity in an hour.
  • We waited what seemed an eternity not knowing if she would come back dead or alive.
  • In the crown cavetto of the cornice is an Egyptian winged globe, entwined with serpents, emblematical of time and eternity; and on the faci below is engraved the following line: -- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827
  • The _foundation_ of this temple may be laid in humility and contrition of spirit, wherein the inhabiter of eternity delighteth to dwell; we may refer the _porch_ to the mouth of a saint, wherein every holy Jacob erects the _pillars_ of God's praise, calling upon and blessing his name for received mercies; when songs of deliverance are uttered from the _doors_ of his lips. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • And what is the space of time to look backward upon, between an early departure and the longest survivance! — and what the consolation attending the sweet hope of meeting again, never more to be separated, never more to be pained, grieved, or aspersed; — but mutually blessing, and being blessed, to all eternity! Clarissa Harlowe
  • Presents, sweets, ice-cream galore, freedom to do as he liked including staying up to all hours: la dolce vita for all eternity. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • Eternity is not a distance but a decision.
  • The believer not only looks forward to everlasting life, but also looks backward into the antemundane eternity and finds in the eternal purpose of divine love the beginning and the firm anchorage of his salvation. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
  • That reminder is why people have to be saved to spend eternity in Heaven.
  • No great wonder then if we seek to mention to non-believers that they risk an eternity of raging hell-fire with the Devil's truncheon up their jacksie. When a blogger goes to work for a presidential candidate.
  • When the title is conferred on public figures, it is a well-known fact that they go mad; celebrities turn into monsters, and politicians into megalomaniacs, addled by delusions of eternity, going on, and on, and on.
  • People have the power to contemplate and reflect upon infinity and eternity, concepts which are totally beyond the realm of the physical world.
  • Usually, the twin pines symbol is enclosed in a circle to symbolize eternity.
  • Stack writes that when two Mormons have their wedding "sealed" for eternity in the temple, Monson said, that unsealing or canceling this "is the saddest and most discouraging responsibility I have. Prophet to Mormon men: Put a ring on it
  • Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 
  • 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.
  • The statues here portray Ramses II as Osiris, god of the afterlife, who helps the dead live for eternity.
  • I will name, also, Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr necking on the beach in From Here to Eternity.
  • Which would really suck – pregnant for eternity ? I'm shuddering at the thought.
  • The trick is to, so to speak, "prolong" eternity on this plane. One Cosmos
  • Furthermore, most Christian theology teaches that life is a training ground for the vision of God that can only be enjoyed fully in 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!
  • He was going to be trapped in his prison for the rest of eternity, and would never see his beloved again.
  • We spent a half an hour in the dealership, which is nigh unto an eternity when you have a small child.
  • After each lifetime they meet in the bardo, the antechamber to eternity, to have their karma assessed and a judgment made against them which will determine the nature of their next life.
  • 1.A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  • The issue in decretal theology was not history and eternity but the orders of eternity. Dangerous Topic
  • He is “for us,” with all the infinity of his being; with all the omnipotence of his love; with all the infallibility of his wisdom; arrayed in all his divine attributes, he is “for us,”eternally and immutably “for us”; “for us” when yon blue skies shall be rolled up like a worn out vesture; “for us” throughout eternity. God is for me - BatesLine
  • They unequivocally express these thoughts: that God is the only being who was from eternity; that the Logos was the first begotten, antemundane being, that he was the likeness, image, immediate manifestation, of the Father; that he was the medium of creation, the instrumental means in the outward formation of the world. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • An eternity ago she had met Father Cuthbert here, when he was a novice, not yet fully consecrated to the Church. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • We're addicted to the unscripted infiniteness of it all, every game a potential eternity (remember extra innings at Candlestick?) S Over
  • The real estate industry, on the other hand, opposes what it considers the over-landmarking of the city, as every new historic district effectively fossilizes another swath of the city for eternity, blocking new development and adding restrictions on alterations. It's On! City Moves To Extend Historic Districts on Upper East Side, Greenwich Village
  • To feel the flame of dreaming and to feel the moment of dancing,when all the romance is far away,the eternity is always there.
  • Will they find happiness or are they doomed to misery for eternity?
  • All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. William Shakespeare 
  • After a silent moment that seemed to span an eternity, she turned to him again.
  • Across the tracks we bought honey, walked the woods by the river and climbed through conifers to top out at wild grasslands with swallows, yellowhammers and smooth views over an eternity of wheat.
  • And yet, though _eons_ of the past eternity have elapsed since we looked out upon Cycas and Zamia, and the last of the Calamites, the time is still early, and long ages must lapse ere man shall arise out of the dust, to keep and to dress fields waving with the productions of yet another and different flora, and to busy himself with all the labor which he taketh under the sun. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
  • And this is that same unity which is fruitful in the outgoing activity of the Persons, and forms in Their return an eternal bond of love which shall never be untied: and all who know themselves to be bound up in it shall be blessed throughout eternity, and they are rich in virtue, and clear in contemplation, and simple in fruitive rest. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 
  • The Son of God, who from eternity shares the fullness of life with the Father and the Holy Spirit, was "immersed" in our reality as sinners to make us share in his own life: he was incarnate, he was born like us, he grew up like us and, on reaching adulthood, manifested his mission which began precisely with the "baptism of conversion" administered by John the Baptist. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Whether heavenly or hellish, the afterlife presents moviemakers with a problem: eternity.
  • 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?
  • After what seemed like an eternity to Jalen, the hunting horn sounded, signaling in the hunt's end.
  • I truly smiled at her after what had seemed like an eternity of waiting.
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 
  • I appreciate that in many definitions of the afterlife what form it takes depends upon how you have acted in your life, but how can a few years determine your existence for the rest of eternity?
  • I knew that if I trusted in Jesus I would be forgiven for all my sins and could spend all eternity with God.
  • In the fragile and fugacious extent of life, Li Ming has been trying to reach that eternity.
  • Suffice it to contend that about thirty minutes in to a movie a entire assembly was visibly activated as well as energized by this stone-cold classic-for-eternity. Archive 2009-11-01
  • It seems that many a man and cow have fallen into an everlasting embrace with eternity by confusing such glamour with solidity.

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