Best Temporal Things Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Knows Ends Helping Hands Realizing Lord Illness This Life Our Lord Setback Brevity Hands Of God Temporal Things

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“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.”

Mind Made Soul Grows Christ Trouble Glory Roots Contemplation Evident Valuation Strongholds Temporal Things

Author:John Owen

“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.”

Remains Constant Passing Passings Passing Away Time Passing Temporal Things

Book:On Time and Being

Source: On Time and Being

“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.”

Determine Former Latter Temporal Things

Book:On Time and Being

Source: On Time and Being

“Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.”

Faith Religious Eternal Unseen Temporal Things

Author:John Calvin

“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.”

Doe Reason Hearing Measurement Unattainable Temporal Things

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”

“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.”

People Men Has Beens Spiritual Certain Values Class Authority Murder Death Penalty Temporal Things

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.”

Looks Eternal Philosophical Temporal Things

Book:A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy

Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy

“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.”

Wisdom Knowledge Eternal Intellectual Rational Apprehension Temporal Things

Author:Saint Augustine

“By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.”

May Mean Spiritual Eternal Temporal Things

Author:Saint Augustine

“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.”

World Inspiration Christian Evil Greater This World Ignorance Consideration Heavenly Temporal Things

Author:Tom Patton

“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.”

Giving Doe Light Spiritual Desire Turns Prayer Ready Intellectual Intelligence Visible Our Prayers Heed Temporal Things Visible Light

Author:Saint Augustine

“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.”

Light Time Greater Affection Obstacles Smell Reaching Time Management Only Time Temporality Temporal Things

Author:Meister Eckhart

“It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.”

Men Sin Eternal Greed Sake Mortals Mortal Sin Temporal Things

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.”

Ifs Want Turns Prayer Achieve Divine Temporal Things

Author:Johannes Tauler

“Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.”

Use Desire Objects Eternal Priorities Temporal Things

Book:The Following of Christ...

Source: The Following of Christ...

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