Top 309 Temporal Quotes & Sayings

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children's temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer.

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.

You are everything and everyone. You are in all things. You exist in all conditions. You are the universe. You just think of yourself as existing within a temporal body

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal

Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be taken away. You have invested so much in it but one day everything is taken away. Then it is natural to feel miserable. Misery is rooted in attachment to the body and bliss is rooted in non-attachment to the body; hence all the great masters have been teaching methods and means of non-attachment, of getting disidentified with the body, with the mind, with everything surrounds you, and of just remaining a pure witness. That's what we are: pure witnessing, pure awareness.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly, to a place beyond the realm of the temporal.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.