Quotes about Temporal

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

The real purpose of meditation is this: to teach a man how to work himself free of created things and temporal concerns, in which he finds only confusion and sorrow, and enter into a conscious and loving contact with God in which he is disposed to receive from God the help he knows he needs so badly, and to pay to God the praise and honor and thanksgiving and love which it has now become his joy to give.

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.

All temporal, partial experience of God inevitably leaves a sense of dissatisfaction behind.

Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

A carnal Christian makes his or her decisions based entirely on what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned