Sentence examples for a distant heaven from inspiring English sources

Superbly, and with a challenge that remains profound, the "Missa Solemnis" offers the vision not of a distant heaven but of a sovereign humanity in ultimate concord here on earth.

We don't coax God out of a distant heaven with our church-going and tithing and clean living.

Vinyl and USB…a match made in a quirky, distant heaven.

Beyond the swags of golden curtains and a five-tier chandelier is a trompe l'oeil ceiling mural that seems to afford a distant view of heaven itself.

For all the criticisms of mass surveillance, we almost seem to want it to be true – to believe that somewhere up in the heavens, a distant spy satellite is watching over us with its beady little lens, giving a shit.

First it brought her a hazy, enervated heaven, occupied by a distant Father and Son, and now it's brought her a strange, possibly heretical heaven, occupied by two vaguely divine men.

While the book is set in 2002, that was a distant future when The Lathe of Heaven was written in 1971.

As a distant bell tolls midnight, she is terrified by an apparition and prays to heaven for mercy.

Among these new machines was the hemikyklion, a semicircle of canvas depicting a distant city, and a stropheion, a revolving machine, used to show heroes in heaven or battles at sea.

A distant siren cried.

A distant foghorn blows.