Quotes about Temporary

Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.

You see, the biggest protection against the kingdom of self is not a set of self-reformative defensive strategies. It's a heart that's so blown away by the right-here, right-now glories of the grace of Jesus Christ that we're not easily seduced by the lesser temporary glories of that claustrophobic kingdom of one, the kingdom of self.

What is will not last forever.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—

A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity

The outward man is perishing; the inward man is being renewed daily. •?The light affliction is today's problems; the eternal glory is tomorrow's promise. The things that are seen are temporary; the things that are not seen are eternal.

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.