Dave Ramsey is fairly typical in his recommendation of renting as a useful temporary stage before you save up enough to buy a place. (badmoneyadvice.com)
Cumulatively, then, every present moment of becoming, every temporary stage of a spiritual quest is weighted with the past as well as the future. (religion-online.org)
It is because you can not bear to believe you are set on this temporary stage to develop responsible moral character, and because you can not tolerate the idea that this is only the first of what may be many stages of conscious existence that you deny completely the idea of God and of life on any other plane, but the terrestrial. (religion-online.org)