Temporal Quotes

208 quotes by 167 authors

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the… — Charles Caleb Colton
No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and… — Paul Davies
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce
Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world… — W. Edwards Deming
Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state,… — Pope Gregory XVI
It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained… — Marion Woodman
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. — George H. Mead
Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws… — Dziga Vertov
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if… — Peter Claver
Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that… — Joseph O'Neill
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. — Norbert of Xanten
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins.… — Thomas Paine
To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and… — Bartolome de las Casas
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is… — Jerry Bridges
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that… — G. Campbell Morgan
That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling… — Brother Lawrence
To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian… — Peter J. Gomes
We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it… — Nicolas Caussin
Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity. — Erwin W. Lutzer

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