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Example sentences for "better things"

  • In the growth of Christianity, true, real, genuine Christianity in this land, I see the promise of better things for us as a race.

  • And we are hopeful; for the "signs of the times" portend the coming of better things.

  • The mere desire of better things is indicative of a better state of affairs.

  • Then we may see better things in the Church, better things in the State, in the Community, in the Home.

  • She too sighs and groans in her chains; and lives but in the hope of better things to come.

  • To talk against pie and still eat it is snobbish, of course; but snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

  • You lose some quiet by this attitude, some repose that is pleasant and even desirable perhaps, you entertain many errors, you may try many useless experiments, but you gain life and are in the way of better things.

  • Carnal hearts that are acquainted with no better things, think nothing vain that pleaseth their sensual inclinations, or which their carnal interest doth require.

  • But especially see that your thoughts be so employed on better things, that sin may never find them vacant.

  • Above all go to Christ for help, and beg his Spirit, and give up thy heart to better things.

  • And then let them have the glad assurance that Thou art with them, the secret of all good, the promise and potency of better things.

  • We have struggled on in vain, resolves are broken ere they pass our lips; we can see no hope of better things, we can never forgive ourselves; and after all our prayers our need remains and our sense of coming short but deepens.

  • But God is not incited to better things by man's words, both because He is unchangeable, and because He is supremely good, and it is not possible for Him to grow better.

  • Further, men are praised with the lips that they may be encouraged to do better: since just as being praised makes the wicked proud, so does it incite the good to better things.

  • Happy the obligation that compels to better things.

  • It is better to give to one who is in greater want, other things being equal, but if he who is less needy is better, and is in want of better things, it is better to give to him: and it is thus in the case in point.

  • Stay with us, and I will help you to better things," said Annie, earnestly.

  • In its light Annie's wet eyes glistened, but she had forgotten herself in her sincere and newly awakened interest in him whom she had secretly hoped and purposed before to lead to better things.

  • But he dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty.

  • Surround yourself with an atmosphere of hopefulness and show everybody by the new light in your eyes, the light of hope and expectancy of better things, that there is a change in you.

  • Working in the spirit of hope and expectancy of better things instead of that of discouragement and the fears of even greater poverty, they would forge ahead in a way that would astonish themselves.

  • If, on the other hand, you have confidence, expectation of better things, if you are convinced that conditions are going to improve, you set in motion a thought current that will back your efforts with an irresistible force.

  • But all thy prayers are heard, And every pain and grief May be to thee as stairs To better things, until Thou reachest, unawares, The Master's mind and will.

  • I suppose it was the large and wide mind of Eveleth, with its openness to a knowledge and appreciation of better things, that had suffered me to forget this.

  • Suppose him in taking his stand to have taken up some social faith that for him has promise of better things.

  • There is, of course, the better side, the many thousands of Catholics and Protestants who sincerely aim at better things.

  • He worked hard and saved money, that the dream of better things might be realized.

  • May we not, as if it were a new idea, rouse to the seriousness of the mediocre habit indulged in by young people capable of better things?

  • They must have light and brightness if he would win them to better things.

  • You can lift them up to better things; build good houses for them to live in; give them work to do that will pay good wages, and help them to be good men.

  • He was still hopeful of better things to come.

  • No, the true way to better things is always to begin by holding on manfully to that which we already are convinced is good.

  • But on what ground can we rest this sanguine expectation of better things to come?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better adapted; better chance; better country; better future; better have; better knight; better known; better make; better not; better opinion; better place; better plan; better results; better resurrection; better than; better then; better things; better understanding; better understood; better view; better world; great might; peerless beauty; shorter time; strong feeling; submarine warfare