Quotes about Temporal
Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.
- Mary Baker Eddy
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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.
- Francis de Sales
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.
- Martin Luther
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.
- Martin Luther
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.
- Martin Luther
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).
- Martin Luther
Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal.
- Mary Baker Eddy
It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).
- Nancy Pearcey
He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:
- Paul David Tripp
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 9:25
He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
- Job 15:29