Quotes about Temporal

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

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

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.

How much less, then, is the disorder to be tolerated that arises when a Christian leaves his office and takes upon him a temporal office, or when a bishop or pastor leaves his office and takes upon him the office of a prince or judge; or, on the other hand, when a prince takes up the office of a bishop and lets his princely office go? Even today this shameful disorder rages and rules in the whole papacy, contrary to their own canons and laws.

Gospel bestows all good things spiritual: forgiveness of sins, true righteousness, peace of conscience, everlasting life; and all good things temporal: good judgment, good government and peace.

The psalm speaks of both, namely, that one must never under any circumstances trust either in temporal things of any kind or in one's own merits; that is to say, one must trust neither in temporal nor in spiritual goods, but through temporal and spiritual things in God alone.

Hence every teaching that flatters or indulges the flesh and teaches temporal things is not of God, because it is not a rod but a reed and softness of clothing (Matt. 11:7-8).

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

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.