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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet. -- Dalai Lama
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. -- Ezra Taft Benson
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. -- Duane Michals
Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance. -- Benny Hinn
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
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
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. -- Polly Toynbee
Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. -- Martin Heidegger
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. -- Alice Morse Earle
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. -- Pope John Paul II
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body. -- Sloane Crosley
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. -- Herman Hesse
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. -- Simone Weil
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. -- Saint Francis de Sales
It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it. -- Michio Kaku
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. -- Martin Heidegger
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body. -- Saint Bernard
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. -- Oscar Wilde
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle. -- David A. Bednar
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal. -- Pete Docter
How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah. -- Meir Soloveichik
Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need. -- George Muller
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. -- Duane Michals
Now to unleash screaming temporal doom! -- Invader
Too often we give up due to temporal challenge. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. -- Ambrose Bierce
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. -- Thomas a Kempis
Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven. -- William Romaine
The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me. -- George Peppard
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal. -- John Calvin
Solamente lo eterno de nosotros puede reconocer la temporalidad de lo temporal -- Eckhart Tolle
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval. -- Max Anders
Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions. -- Rick Warren
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. -- Ruth Benedict
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. -- Francine Rivers
Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it? -- T.F. Hodge
Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change. -- Robert Lanza
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. -- Iris Murdoch
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By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. -- Saint Augustine
The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state. -- Jay Samit
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire. -- Thomas a Kempis
We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal -- Rumi
Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal? -- Charles Spurgeon
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. -- Thomas Pynchon
Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature. -- Peter J. Carroll
The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems ... -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. -- Helen Keller
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. -- Saint Augustine
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. -- Jonathan Swift
This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell. -- Jeremy Taylor
The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal? -- Saib Tabrizi
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. -- Don DeLillo
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage. -- Roger Williams
The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. -- Masha Tupitsyn
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. -- Ambrose Bierce
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. -- Alvin Toffler
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought. -- Milan Kundera
Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. -- Robert Lanza
Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities. -- Katharina Zell
Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged. -- Ravi Zacharias
Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones! -- Vincent de Paul
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity. -- Terence McKenna
Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome. -- Albert Schweitzer
Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France). -- Martha Ronk
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal. -- Edgar Cayce
Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal ! -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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
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
Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community. -- Dale Jamieson
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life. -- Thomas Aquinas
A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment. -- Oliver Cowdery
Individuals are custodians of the life stream -- temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams. -- Charles Lindbergh
You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls. -- Marion G. Romney
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both. -- Marshall McLuhan
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received. -- Paul Tillich
Our society puts more weight on success through acquisition of temporal things, but God requires us to long after those things that have an eternal value. -- Ashley N. Sauls
Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal. -- Nicholas of Cusa
--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. -- Marilynne Robinson
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 problems. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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 heavenly. -- Charles Spurgeon
The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need. -- Henry B. Eyring
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 of God. -- Joseph Campbell
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 of Noah. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up. -- Matthew Henry
I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work. -- Henry B. Eyring
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 standpoint mirrors the world -- Alfred North Whitehead
What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success. -- Archibald Marwizi
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 than they really are. -- Tom Patton
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 temporal because of familiarity. -- Saint Augustine
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry. -- Anais Nin
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 and conventions of film construction. -- Dziga Vertov
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 existing within a temporal body -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Apostle Paul wrote, The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18). The physical dies away, but the spiritual is forever. -- David Berg
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 source is godly and eternal. -- John Ashcroft
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it. -- Edmund Burke
It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity. -- T.F. Hodge
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 long-sought-after peace of our twilight years. -- Rick Yancey

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