Temporal Quotes

208 quotes by 167 authors

6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence â€” as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… — Roland Barthes
What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is… — William James
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception… — Brother Lawrence
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. — Francine Rivers
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she… — Garth Stein
Earthly loveâ€¦ is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of… — Donald Miller
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. — Don DeLillo
I'm alone. And I'm crying. And no one is coming to the crib. And the nightlight has burned out. And I'm mad. I'm so mad.… — Neal Shusterman
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought. — Milan Kundera
Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the… — Rick Yancey
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is… — Charles Spurgeon
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the… — Saint Augustine
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be… — Soren Kierkegaard
That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,… — C.S. Lewis
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. — Thomas Pynchon
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto… — E E Cummings
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul.… — Ellen G. White
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. — Saint Augustine
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the… — David Hume

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