Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "glass darkly"

  • Though I do not mean to say that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas sees only through a glass darkly, any more than he who contemplates actual effects.

  • And are not we at this day seeking to discover that which Socrates in a glass darkly foresaw?

  • We still see through a glass darkly, and we are still too apt to impute to God Himself the darkness of those very hearts of ours in which He is so dimly mirrored.

  • And yet does it not contain things whereof even St. Paul himself said, that he only knew in part, and prophesied in part, and saw as through a glass darkly; and are we to suppose that they are among the truths necessary to salvation?

  • But it is not the Christian alone who is to enter eternity, and to whom the exchange of worlds will bring a luminous apprehension of many things that have hitherto been seen only through a glass darkly.

  • Now, we see through a glass darkly, but then, face to face.

  • We seem to have been able to glimpse from our Watch Tower, though through a glass darkly, the whole Truth, and to see that the Infinity of Time is a figment of our finite senses and is comprised in the Now.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glass darkly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but has; considerable area; glass beads; glass bottle; glass bowl; glass case; glass darkly; glass dish; glass houses; glass making; glass painting; glass shade; glass tube; glass tubes; glass vessel; glass vessels; glass windows; glass works; heart will; inalienable right; make inquiry; naturally enough; rain gauge; sided prisms; then add; well stirred