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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal. -- John Calvin
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire. -- Thomas a Kempis
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual. -- Saint Augustine
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. -- Saint Augustine
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
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
For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto whatever is not-audible, even though these things exist and are unattainable by hearing. -- Nicholas of Cusa
The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler. -- John Owen
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time. -- Meister Eckhart
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things. -- Saint Augustine
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. -- Thomas a Kempis
The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me. -- George Peppard
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
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Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change. -- Robert Lanza
It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. -- Helen Keller
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
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
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
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

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