While he was thus fulfilling the Perfections, there was no limit to the existences in which he fulfilled the Perfection of Almsgiving.
Rational existences in Heaven perish not at all, and but partially on Earth: That which is thus once will in some way be always: The first Living human Soul is still alive, and all Adam hath found no Period.
The fact that God creates worlds and gives birth to personal existences is not grounded in his omnipotence, but in his love.
He pervades and interpenetrates all existences without displacing them in space or disturbing their operations.
Are they existencesor attributes, are they ideal or real, are they entities or relations?
These existences offer resistance to my muscular effort to displace them in space, and defy all my mental effort to reduce them to the category of subjective phenomena.
If all finite existences are but modes of the Infinite Being, we have a consistent Pantheism at any rate.
Hence we are not justified in asserting that all actual existences are only different modes of one identical reality.
Annihilate all finite existences and finite duration, and there is neither space nor time--that is, there is "pure nothing.
But if all finite existences are simply phenomena without any underlying reality, then "perception is a dream, and my existence the dream of that dream.
And when we think of the Relations of God to finite existences and finite consciousness, we are constrained to regard Him as the Ground and Cause and Reason of all dependent being.
All other existencesare derived and dependent, and therefore can not be self-existent.
In regard to prior and inferior existences the language is, "Let the earth bring forth!
To separate all existencesfrom one another is the crude attempt of an uncultured and unphilosophical mind.
It is necessary, therefore, that we should know what each of the important existences was in the beginning—for there is no doubt that in the beginning the origin was one: the origin of all numbers is one and not two.
So man exists; the animal, the plant and the mineral exist also—but the degrees of these fourexistences vary.
Things which are sensible are those which are perceived by the five exterior senses; thus those outwardexistences which the eyes see are called sensible.
The union of souls and of existences took place; all became true spiritual Christians.
But it furnishes no genealogical link to show that the existences of one race derive their lineage from the existences of another.
Most of these who run out their existences in the midst of excitement, however, only do harm by adding to the swarm of speculators in life, or accomplish very little because of the intense {518} excitement under which they labor.
Such a different life it might have been to both; and now the moment for doing anything had long past, and the two barren existences were alike coming to an end.
And it can not be doubted that between phenomena which are themselves effects, the co-existences must necessarily depend on the causes of those phenomena.
Now, the most extensive in its subject-matter of all generalizations which experience warrants, respecting the sequences and co-existences of phenomena, is the law of causation.
In the first place, sequences and co-existences are not only asserted respecting Phenomena; we make propositions also respecting those hidden causes of phenomena, which are named substances and attributes.
But it is fatal to the universality of the sequences or co-existences of effects, which compose the greater part of the derivative laws flowing from laws of causation.
One of the most potent causes of drink is the monotony of the existences led by most people, the hopeless dreariness of their confined, narrow lives, the total lack of interest and excitement.
As soon, on the other hand, as in the series of existences knowledge appears the organs of generation are transferred to a hidden part.
It takes the world and the animal existences present in it as absolutely given, in that it starts from them.
Every sentient being is reaping as it has sown; if not in this life, then in one or other of the infinite series of antecedent existences of which it is the latest term.
Only subsequently, often several weeks later, after an ecstasy, there would make its appearance a new complicated romance which explained the striking relationship through pre-existences or through illegitimate relations.
In her various pre-existences she was sometimes married, and in this way gradually founded a whole system of relationships with whose endless complicated inter-relations she occupied herself in many ecstasies.
In all her pre-existences she was a medium and an intermediary in the intercourse between this side and the other.
Schelling tells me that both the tree and my ego are existences equally real, or ideal, but they are nothing less than manifestations of the absolute.
In the mean time, she has two complete existences separate and apart, which alternate but never mingle.
The Ideas or Forms of Plato (according to many of his phrases, for he is not always consistent with himself) are not only real existences distinct from particulars, but absorb to themselves all the reality of particulars.
If it was indeed that she had in her own person a dual existence, what might happen when the two existences became one?
For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same--like the soul of a musician in a fugue.
She had even the right to go out of existence without considering anyone's feelings or convenience since some women's existenceswere made impossible by the shortsighted baseness of men.
Fresh as Matt was from the immensities of sea and sky, the shabbiness of the spectacle caught at his throat; he thought chokingly of the unnumbered, unnoticed existences dragging dismally along within those bleak, congested barracks.
He ceased to wonder that artists found inspiration in this atmosphere, in which the fog itself seemed but the visible symbol of the innumerable mysterious existences swarming in its obscure vastness.
But it is evident that, as all phenomena are subject to change and conditioned in their existence, the series of dependent existences cannot embrace an unconditioned member, the existence of which would be absolutely necessary.
Then there are otherexistences to be worn through or ever he may reach the road where the Light shines.
The qualities we acquire, and which slowly grow up in us, are the invisible bonds binding each of these existences to the next; the soul alone remembers them, since matter has no memory for spiritual things.
To achieve this first grade, in his previous existences he must have gone through hope and charity, which engender in him the gifts of faith and prayer.
It is, moreover, rather my custom to wind up my exotic existenceswith a fête; in other countries I have done the same.
Fourthly, Of the three realExistences of which we have certain knowledge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "existences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
