Temporal Quotes

208 quotes by 163 authors

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson
If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal? — Charles Spurgeon
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary. — Bernard of Clairvaux
As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have… — John Ashcroft
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,… — Heber J. Grant
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal. — Edgar Cayce
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner, Delgado and others… — Rajneesh
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself… — C.S. Lewis
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic… — Honore de Balzac
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it… — Fulton J. Sheen
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be… — Paul Tillich
Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven. — William Romaine
This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs… — Pope Pius XII
"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole… — Saint Augustine
To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we… — Howard W. Hunter
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the… — Bruce R. McConkie

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