Sentence examples for concept of eternity from inspiring English sources
Though time means nothing to Athena - for that is what she teaches you first, the concept of eternity - it has, in her case, been awfully kind.
Cricket seemed less brutal then; it still retained some of its flavour of a summer's game "invented by the English to give themselves some concept of eternity", as an anonymous wit put it.
All the directors Moreau has worked with--Truffaut, Bunuel, Orson Welles, Louis Malle, Peter Brook--recognize Brook--recognize Brook--recognize of eternity and her "sense of dreability
Messiaen was a composer obsessed with religious matters, and particularly with the concept of eternity, but I do sometimes find myself wishing he hadn't evoked the latter quite so literally in his music.
Philip argues that the notion of "wholly present" removes the idea of succession from the concept of eternity while the notion of "wholly perfected" removes the idea of division into parts from the concept of eternity.
Concepts of eternity have developed in a way that is, as a matter of fact, closely connected to the development of the concept of God in Western thought, beginning with ancient Greek philosophers; particularly to the idea of God's relation to time, the idea of divine perfection, and the Creator-creature distinction.
(The titles translate as philosophical concepts of eternity, no great surprise for a band that named itself after an ancient Greek philosophical school and titled its most famous song "Veil of Maya").
Arnold alludes to this in his magnificent concept of "living before eternity": "The promise of everlasting life has less to do with duration of time and more to do with a certain kind of life -- one of peace, fellowship, and abundance -- and such a life can begin now".
And now, at this juncture when death is no longer an abstract concept, but a presence--I am again surrounding myself with metals and minerals little emblems of eternity".
In late 2005, Autumn also recorded vocals and violin for "The Gates of Eternity" from Attrition's 2008 album All Mine Enemys Whispers: The Story of Mary Ann Cotton, a concept album focusing on the Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.
