Quotes on Temporal Things

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.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.