Quotes About Time

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise." 2 Peter 3:9.

Each day was called a generation, because that in it God generated, or produced, some new portion of his work.

time—that true happiness is found, not in the indulgence of pride and luxury, but in communion with God through his created works.

The benefit you derive from your food does not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough digestion, nor the gratification of the taste so much on the amount of food swallowed as on the length of time it remains in the mouth.-- R.

One day alone is ours, and during this day we are to live for God.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18.

Remember that you are to live but one day at a time, that God has given you one day, and heavenly records will show how you have valued its privileges and opportunities.—My Life Today, p. 95.

Our time here is short. We can pass through this world but once; as we pass along, let us make the most of life. The

But as the church approaches her final deliverance, Satan is to work with greater power. He comes down "having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a [pg x] short time." Rev. 12:12. He will work "with all power and signs and lying wonders." 2 Thess. 2:9.

By the time the class ended I was back into an optimistic mood about their work. They were learning, they were working, it takes time, the muse will come if she is summoned.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.

When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son." Providence

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

Out of time we cut "days" and "nights," "summers" and "winters." We say what each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes. —William James, "The World We Live In

the promise of a big payoff diminishes our appreciation of the present situation

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Time has become quiet flexible inside the library. (This is true of most places with interesting books. Sit down to read for twenty minutes, and suddenly it's dark, with no clue as to where the hours have gone.)

No one knew how old she was, but she vaguely remembered waving to President Coolidge. She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

There's no statute of limitations on missing someone. I'm sure there are still times when it feels like only yesterday." It

I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.