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Quotes About Temporal

Il vivait vite comme un mécanisme d'horloge qui se défend, il franchissait au galop les âges qu'il ne lui était pas accordé d'atteindre dans le temps, et durant les dernières vingt-quatre heures, il devint un vieillard.
~ Thomas Mann
Du gehst und gehst … du wirst von solchem Gange niemals zu rechter Zeit nach Hause zurückkehren, denn du bist der Zeit und sie ist dir abhanden gekommen.
~ Thomas Mann
The real purpose of meditation is this: to teach a man how to work himself free of created things and temporal concerns, in which he finds only confusion and sorrow, and enter into a conscious and loving contact with God in which he is disposed to receive from God the help he knows he needs so badly, and to pay to God the praise and honor and thanksgiving and love which it has now become his joy to give.
~ Thomas Merton
The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.
~ Kempis 1380-1471 Thomas
The Indian regarded the human being as a 'divine mortal', or a 'divine physical being'. Indeed, I have had it explained to me that the prefix "hu" in some tongues meant 'divine', and "man" of course, is mortal. So a human being is a divine mortal being - a dual being existing in the realms of both spirit and matter; one spiritual, the other physical; one eternal, the other temporal.
~ Kenneth Meadows
Days like these go on for years. It's the ones you want to last that slip away—one, two, three—in seconds.
~ Gayle Forman
All temporal, partial experience of God inevitably leaves a sense of dissatisfaction behind.
~ Geerhardus Vos
Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.
~ Geerhardus Vos
Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.
~ Geerhardus Vos
Time is the fire in which we burn. Gene Roddenberry
~ Gene Roddenberry
We may have given to us, in this life, a few things that will give us satisfaction, temporally; but the things that are eternal, the things that are "worth while", are those eternal things that we reach out for, and prepare ourselves to receive, and lay hold of by the effort that we individually make.
~ George Albert Smith
Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.
~ George B. Dyson
However, the Hebrew word 'ôl?m, which is strictly speaking a temporal word meaning "age," gained new nuances from the contact of Jewish thinkers with the Hellenistic world. The word assumed spatial connotations, and thus 'ôl?m came to mean both age and the world.
~ George Eldon Ladd
It is not time that passes, but the existence of what is changable that passes in time.
~ Immanuel Kant
Vincent took them in the full spirit of friendship which knows that the difference between giving and taking is purely temporal.
~ Irving Stone
According to our calculations, you have now reached domination of the barbarian kingdoms immediately surrounding the Foundation. Just as in the first crisis you held them off by the use of the Balance of Power, so in the second, you gained mastery by the Spiritual Power as against the Temporal.
~ Isaac Asimov
Ne yaz?k ki, Sonsuzlukta bile ÅŸimdiki zaman geçip gidiyor.
~ Isaac Asimov
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
~ Sloane Crosley
Nothing in this world is permanent.
~ German proverb
Time bears away all things.
~ Virgil
We are historical beings, unable to describe ourselves without describing ourselves in space and time.
~ Susan Neiman
Man is miserable this moment, happy the next.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Forever's just a word.
~ Ryan Manley, Thread
The word temporal means subject to change. Things you are seeing with the physical, natural eye are always subject to change through spiritual law.
~ Charles Capps