829 examples of temporal in sentences

How well she trained them, not only in temporal wisdom, but in the highest of all wisdom, many evidences show.

The poor and the sick, young girls exposed to temptation, all who needed temporal or spiritual help, were the special objects of her care and benevolence.

" "As temporal viceroy of Lucifer?

He was the first of all the heroes of the Church who dared to contend with the temporal powers, not as a man uttering a protest, but as an equal adversary,as a warrior bent on victory.

The spiritual and temporal powers were, in fact, arrayed against each other,an unarmed clergy, declaring principles, against an armed soldiery with swords and lances.

The temporal power had yielded to the spiritual.

It was as long in reaching its culminating greatness as that temporal empire which controlled the ancient world.

Barbaric chieftains defied the emperors and all temporal powers.

His aim was doubtless spiritual, not temporal.

We see before us the Mediaeval clergy in all their privileges, and yet in all their ignorance and superstition, shielded from the punishment of crime and the operation of all ordinary laws (a sturdy defiance of the temporal powers), the agents and ministers of a foreign power, armed with the terrors of hell and the grave.

He was the contemporary of political, worldly, warlike, unscrupulous popes, disgraced by nepotism and personal vices,men who aimed to extend not a spiritual but temporal dominion, and who scandalized the highest position in the Christian world, as attested by all reliable historians, whether Catholic or Protestant.

Things temporal were mixed up with things spiritual in his discourses.

The people looked up to him as their leader, temporal as well as spiritual.

We, in this country and in these times, have no very great liking to this union of spiritual and temporal authority: we would separate and divide this authority.

For instance, he not merely attacked indulgences, then a crying evil, as peddled by Tetzel and others like him, and all to get money to support the temporal power of the popes or build St. Peter's church; but he would show that penance, on which indulgences are based, is antagonistic to the doctrine which Paul so forcibly expounded respecting the forgiveness of sins and the grounds of justification.

The Power of the Pope in temporal affairs, against William Barclay.

The duty of the priest was to look after the souls of his sovereign's subjects, to baptize, marry, and bury them, to confess and absolve them, and keep them from backsliding, to say mass, and to receive the salary due him for celebrating divine service; but, though his personal influence was of course very great, he had no temporal authority, and could not order his people either to fight or to work.

We humans are incurably rooted in the temporal point of view.

For such minds Professor Royce's words will always be the truest: 'The very presence of ill in the temporal order is the condition of the perfection of the eternal order....

We long for the absolute only in so far as in us the absolute also longs, and seeks through our very temporal striving, the peace that is nowhere in time, but only, and yet absolutely, in eternity.

But I think that even eulogistic words should be used rather to distinguish than to commingle meanings, so I prefer bluntly to call reality if not irrational then at least non-rational in its constitution,and by reality here I mean reality where things happen, all temporal reality without exception.

It is no wonder that earlier thinkers, forgetting that concepts are only man-made extracts from the temporal flux, should have ended by treating them as a superior type of being, bright, changeless, true, divine, and utterly opposed in nature to the turbid, restless lower world.

If the each-form be the eternal form of reality no less than it is the form of temporal appearance, we still have a coherent world, and not an incarnate incoherence, as is charged by so many absolutists.

It is not confined to the thinking part of the people, who know that passion and irritability avail nothing; nor to those who, not thinking at all, are, of course, not moved by any thing: but is equally possessed by every rank and condition, whether you class them by their mental endowments, or their temporal possessions.

No reward of keeping this first great law, reaching beyond the boundary of a temporal condition, was promised at its giving out.

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