Nay, the word has in it a higher meaning hallowed by religion; and when the Christian would express the highest of his hopes for a better life, he speaks of his home beyond the grave.
Technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal.
I believe that we should make available to peace-loving peoples the benefits of our store of technical knowledge in order to help them realize their aspirations for a better life.
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life.
Subsequently, when reflection and feeling are developed under the urgency of life, especially of social and political life, this primary negative wish becomes the positive wish for a life, and that a better life, after death.
Therefore we must in this life live like strangers until we reach the true fatherland, and receive a better life which is eternal.
If there is not another and a better life, God is not just and good.
His poor, rough nature was beginning to feel the need of a better life.
I hope they felt my desire for a better life, for it is a great rest to be comprehended.
When day broke over the hills another morning burst on his senses, and Clarence Bowen, of the gay world, was not the same as before, but a man of high resolves and noble purposes, trying to live a better life.
Does He know how hard I tried to lead a better life?
How fervently he hoped that it might be so; and though he now seldom exchanged a word with Hubert, he did not forget him, but still hoped that he might lead a better life.
And it was doubtless in answer to his parents' prayers that the little snatches of his early lessons were allowed to intrude so repeatedly upon him, to bring him back, if possible, to a better life.
On the contrary, she had longings for a better life and a broader culture such as she had never experienced before.
Above all else, they may have faith in God and a better life to come; such possessions are like the compartments of a modern ship.
If I dared to appeal to God I would say that he knows that I would have tried to bloom into a better life, even though imperfectly, if some one had only thought it worth while to show me how.
It is simply this--I've found a Divine Friend who will help me live a better life.
The roughest one, he tells me, was the one I took for a ranch owner; and the most civil, the one I thought had known a better life.
A double wedding, and together they all abandon the old home, and the old life, and float down a beautiful river to a better life in a new home.
His term in the penitentiary will expire in June, and I do hope he has learned a lesson that will lead him to a better life; for he was rather a fine looking man, and is now only thirty-two years old.
Not one of our imitators of antiques was superior to this Tommaso, of whom it has seemed to me right that record should be made, and the rather as he has passed to a better life, leaving name and fame for his ability.
In the solemn hush, one after another rises to his feet, often as many as fifty making this silent appeal for strength to lead a better life.
He cannot see a drunkard on the street without his heart going out in a desire to help him to a better life.
But he went in, joined in the meeting, asked for forgiveness of his sins and the prayers of the church to help him lead a better life, and accepted Christ as his personal Savior.
But the consciousness of sin for the religious becomes simply a prelude to entrance upon a better life.
But to all there comes at one time or another an urgent sense of spiritual shortcoming and the desire to lead a better life.
Divine favor is sought rather by aspiration after and the practice of a better life.
The lamenting of sins becomes the least part; what is important is the immense new impetus toward a better life.
Thus, it is lawful to wish to die in order to enter into a better life, or to be freed from the temptations and sinfulness of life on earth.
Even great sorrow may be a blessing, by drawing some of our affections away from this life to a better life .
An intuition of God, a sense of human weakness and dependence, a belief in a Divine government of the world, a distinction between good and evil, and a hope of a better life, these are some of the radical elements of all religions.
Five hundred or more convicts in the New York State Penitentiary were men who, as I learned from a missionary who came aboard to pray with us, sing hymns and exhort us to a better life, had been canal-boat drivers.
Benedetto Varchi, who shortly afterwards made his way to a better life.
This condition we constantly invoke, and by all the means within our reach we try to stimulate the desire for a better life.
In a large number of cases, they have been the direct means of bringing men in whom few traces of goodness could at first be discerned in such contact with religious influences as to win them over to a better life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "better life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
