Sentence examples for earthly things from inspiring English sources
This week, we'll concern ourselves with earthly things.
Harold is sinful, and "few earthly things found favour in his sight / Save concubines......
"We have all these earthly things to do -- like basketball practice and soccer practice," she continued.
"Let us spurn earthly things; let us struggle towards the heavenly," he writes.
"And remembering that hope is always with us and our hope is not in these earthly things.
Their home is the kingdom of God, which transcends all earthly things, not any particular nation-state.
Help me to feel that I will give up every earthly thing for this.
In its purest, wildest form, his self-nourishing fantasy is of a world where each earthly thing, as Gerard Manley Hopkins put it, in perhaps the most beautiful poem ever written about self-definition, "finds tongue to fling out broad its name".
As God's final revelation to man, it belongs not to earthly, created things but to an eternal realm.
No doubt because hell is a more earthly-seeming thing.
There is a sense of a last look, a (greatly accelerated) farewell to things earthly, the places and people and events of one's life, and a sense of ecstasy or joy as one soars toward one's destination.
