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Example sentences for "our being"

  • If the heart deceives us, if the voice of duty leads us astray, the disorder is at the very core of our being; our nature is ill constructed.

  • Error is a malady; it is not the radical condition of our nature; it is not without limits and without remedy, for the final cause of our being is God, that is to say truth and goodness.

  • Happiness is the end of our being; it is the will of the Father.

  • If there had been a chance of escape it would have been different, but seeing the strength of the castle, methinks there is no prospect whatever of our being able to get out.

  • Still, I do think that there is a possibility of our being attacked.

  • I would say strip altogether, but we may have to do another swim; for, as we agreed, there is no chance of our being able to return by the way we came.

  • For that task we have need of all the resources of our being; of courage and high devotion, of faith in ourselves and our comrades, of clean, straight thinking, of discipline both of body and mind.

  • In that sense every thinking man must be religious; in that sense Religion is a perpetually self-renewing force, the very nature of our being.

  • It is a fact that the mysterious Source of our being is infinite, and that we are only at the beginning of our thinking about it.

  • If we did not make, could not have made ourselves, how can we, now we are made, do anything at the unknown roots of our being?

  • For this are we created; it is the one end of our being, and includes all other ends whatever.

  • We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of to-morrow, when we are building up our being.

  • Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

  • We have at length succeeded, and that is the cause of our being so late.

  • The two mountains which bounded this valley formed nearly a circle, but were so high, craggy, and steep, that there was no fear of our being seen by any body.

  • Sir," said the calenders, "this is the first time of our being in the house; we came in but a few minutes before you.

  • Just so does some great din of the world, falling on our ears, send us to our being's centre for rest.

  • If so, the seventh day must depend upon our being able to fix upon which day of the week the creation commenced.

  • It will considerably increase the danger of our being deceived.

  • In order to our being satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox.

  • What is the reason of our being often so frigid and unpersuasive in public discourse?

  • The whole reasons of our being allotted a condition, out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise.

  • Our being able to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them.

  • It reveals the presence of a spiritual nucleus of our being obtaining a content beyond the needs [p.

  • Such a conviction concerning the spiritual kernel of our being is not a mere matter either of thought or feeling or will.

  • Yet, on the other hand, the consciousness of a kernel of our being, non-sensuous and spiritual in its nature, has for ever broken our satisfaction with the physical world and our own physical existence.

  • Hundreds of similar examples may be found in Eucken's books, and all point to the insufficiency of the natural process for satisfying the deepest needs of our being.

  • Our great danger is in the chance of our being noticed by men on other parts of the walls or on the castle.

  • Let no one escape," he said; "it would cost us our lives did one get away to tell of our being here.

  • But it is more likely that he wished to lead us so close that he could, when he escaped, carry the news of our being in the neighbourhood, in time for the Welshmen to surround and cut us off before we could return.

  • Their motive we do not know, but in some secret depth of our being we feel that there could be nothing nobler, and thinking this we have devoted the twilight hour to the understanding of their nature.

  • The only difference we shall find is in ourselves, in that we have taken our lives out of harmony with the higher laws of our being, and consequently have lost the higher powers through not using them.

  • It is a great law of our being that we become like those things we contemplate.

  • We have taken our lives out of a conscious harmony with the higher laws of our being, with the result that we are going against the great current of the Divine Order of things.

  • The intellectual part of our being may be better understood if divided into two departments, viz.

  • This process of the mind is not confined to the religious part of our being.


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


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