Sentences with phrase «temporal things»
The phrase "temporal things" refers to material or worldly possessions and activities that are temporary or not permanent. It includes things that are related to time, such as money, possessions, or even success, which can all change or fade away over time. Full definition
Yet in another way he took neither himself nor any other temporal thing with full seriousness.
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This realism stems from what Christopher Lasch referred to as an awareness «that the contingent, provisional, and finite quality of temporal things finds its most vivid demonstration not just in the death of individuals but in the rise and fall of nations.»
«It is hard to see,» Augustine wrote, «how God creates temporal things and events without temporal movement in himself.»
We may need to repent of anxiety that has gripped us because we were worried about temporal things.
In the pursuit of temporal things — better blog stats, more praise, a fleeting sense of superiority, a laugh — I've left some carnage in my wake, and for that I humbly repent.
Thus a Platonist might be most impressed with the ravages of time, its continually nugatory effect to make all temporal things transient and thus only half real, existing only in a perpetual process of perishing.
This has significance, this is not a temporal thing.»
On the other hand, the world is the community of those who are occupied with temporal things.
Now there is much in Augustine about this tendency of the soul to turn toward preoccupation with temporal things, and much in condemnation of the body's lusts.
The coin is a temporal thing that is given to Caesar in exchange for particular «blessings,» but the true blessing of life, of breath, of body, of soul, mind and spirit are from God and should be offered back to God.
... It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be affected and grow according to Christ and may be to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer.
It is thus in part a temporal word, and statements containing it are in part about «temporal things.»
The world and Satan would have you believe in the temporal things of this world and of the flesh.
These are all the things I've been involved with from the beginning — the special nature of the painting surface, that place where all these temporal things are fixed, like a fly in amber.
Time is a temporal thing... what a miracle that God has given you and Kevin to Sweet P as mama and daddy.