This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.
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Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal.
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies.
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
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A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its parts, and th...
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Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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