Temporal Quotes

208 quotes by 163 authors

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. — Johannes Tauler
Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but… — Bruno Walter
We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to… — Jean Gebser
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so… — Carrie Brownstein
The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems ... — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed… — Brent L. Top
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my… — Mahatma Gandhi
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire. — Thomas a Kempis
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… — Richard Le Gallienne
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind… — Joseph Campbell
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. — Duane Michals
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,… — Josiah Royce
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from… — Josiah Royce
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… — Frederick Lenz
No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we… — Aelred of Rievaulx
There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you… — Criss Jami
When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been… — Maximus the Confessor
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world. — Muhammad Iqbal

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