Temporal Quotes

208 quotes by 167 authors

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish. — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the… — Noah Webster
Actually, all gifts have been given for reasons of temporal use and need and they will surely pass away at the end of the present… — John Cassian
It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn,… — Michael Herr
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the… — William Blake
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. — Ambrose Bierce
Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the… — Samuel Adams
No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So… — Spencer W. Kimball
I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation,… — Tom Robbins
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… — Rajneesh
It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal… — Pope Leo I
I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be… — John Flavel
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to… — Soren Kierkegaard
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash,… — C.S. Lewis
Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation.… — Nathaniel Dorsky
Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a beginning in time,… — Ken Wilber
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones! — Vincent de Paul
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things, — Thomas Aquinas

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