Temporal Quotes
208 quotes by 168 authors
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all…
— Zadie Smith
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Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy…
— Thomas Jefferson
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May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency…
— George Washington
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In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater…
— Tom Patton
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For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against…
— Burton Hill
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible…
— Saint Augustine
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If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our…
— John Ashcroft
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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…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which…
— Lytton Strachey
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From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord’s counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Our Heavenly Father hears the prayers of His children across the earth pleading for food to eat, for clothes to cover their bodies, and for…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the…
— Jim Elliot
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Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.
— Rick Warren
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There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes…
— Tom Robbins
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Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for…
— Nick Cave
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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…
— Meister Eckhart
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What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because…
— Sri Aurobindo
Who Wrote These Temporal Quotes
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