Sentence examples for finite thing from inspiring English sources

The only way you get through it is to realize it's a finite thing".

Terrorism is not, as the president seems to suggest, a finite thing.

"You know there's an end coming; life is a finite thing," says Benson.

He is, after all, infinite in every respect, and therefore much easier to define than a finite thing.

As faithful as Mr. Wright has tried to be in his fervent new "Anna Karenina," in this sort of affair fidelity is a fragile, finite thing.

Time can be twisted, he said, "so from one point of view the universe is a finite thing that is growing into something infinite if you wait forever, but from another point of view it's always infinite".

Planes, like economies, are finite things.

In response to atheism and secularism, the Faith and Order document, which is much indebted in this section to Wolfhart Pannenberg, proclaims that "the world of finite things and the secular social system both lack ultimate meaning and purpose without a transcendent reality as their basis".

How can Spinoza believe both that God is the cause of all things and that finite things follow only from other finite things?

Returning to a much earlier suggestion, Spinoza thinks that one way in which finite things follow from God's nature is in virtue of being caused by other finite things that are themselves partial expressions of divine power.

Although it is a minority opinion today, interpreting Spinoza as denying the existence of finite things has a rich pedigree.