Sentence examples for before heaven from inspiring English sources

It is something formlessly fashioned, that existed before heaven and earth… Its name (ming) we do not know; Dao is the byname that we give it.

In these scriptures he expanded his predecessor's idea that all men are not only equal before heaven but that they also must serve heaven.

Jesus died before heaven came down to earth, and this, coupled with the Resurrection appearances, led his followers to expect him to return in the near future, ushering in the kingdom and ruling in God's stead.

4 p.m. 1. High-Altitude Beer Marketed as "the last beer stop before heaven," the brewery in the nearby village of Monstein was founded in 2001 in a vacant dairy — one of the younger buildings in the village at just over 100 years old.

In Mr. Stockhausen's "Himmels-Tür" ("Heaven's Door," 2005), a percussionist (Stuart Gerber) raises a ruckus before heaven's gate.

Part 2, Mahler took the final theme from Goethe's Faust and set it to music; from now on he's sensing Goethe's extraordinary vision, which is of the last level before Heaven's Gates".

It had been written in 1967 by folk group the Corries about events that had happened 650 years before, for heaven's sake.

Never before had heaven been quite this indistinct.

When analyzing any given situation or circumstance, think about it in terms of how it fits in with the Kingdom of Heaven before worrying about how it appears from a worldly perspective.

According to another fragment, however, Etana either became dizzy or lost his nerve before reaching heaven and crashed to the ground.

Before leaving heaven for earth the BVM always seemed to go through the dressing-up box so that she could come down as Queen Victoria, say, or dressed in what sounded very much like a sari.