Quotes About Chronology

Regrets ignore chronology. They float around.

But the trouble with life was that it had to be lived consecutively.

Regrets ignore chronology. They float around. The sequence of these lists changes all the time.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Jesus is generally believed to have been born around 6 B.C. The Crucifixion occurred no later than A.D. 36, which would make Jesus, at most, forty-two years of age.

How long was a year anyway? Fifty-two weeks? Three hundred and sixty-five days? Eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours?

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Through Christ, their history becomes our history; we are engrafted into the Bible's ongoing chronology. The Hebrew Scriptures become our own family narrative. The history of the Bible and the history of the Church form a single story, of which our lives—and our worship—are an integral part.

The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.

Today is the twenty-first of May 28367." So, over twenty-six thousand years ago . . . "How old am I, in Earth years?" "Twenty-six thousand, three hundred and fifty-five.

In the twentieth year of Jeroboamís reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah,

(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)

So the duration of Jehuís reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.

In the thirty-eighth year of Azariahís reign over Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria six months.

In the second year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah.