Quotes about Transient

Paul declares that 'flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom.' He doesn't mean that physicality will be abolished. 'Flesh and blood' is a technical term for that which is corruptible, transient, heading for death. The contrast is not between what we call physical and what we call nonphysical but between corruptible physicality, on the one hand, and incorruptible physicality, on the other.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

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

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,