Quotes About Time

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

Age swallows our childhood.

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

Flowers don't open to the clock but to the sunshine spontaneous; for modern humans that manner of instinct is now extraneous.

My younger passions are still listening, as I age.

How many stanzas in the springtime breeze? How plenty the raindrops? As He doth please. There is no meter and there is no rhyme, Yet God's poems always read in perfect time.

We write to remember our nows later.

My resolution was all well and good, but what really sustained me during those dark, lonely hours of the night was another deeper, more persistent thought. With every tick of the clock, I was one moment closer to being with Steve again.

The truth is we all have an expiration date. Your time here on earth is limited. It's precious. It's valuable. God doesn't want you wasting another second with meaningless habits that are derailing your dreams. What if God placed a big stamp on our "passport to life" showing us how much time we have left? I mean, it's sorta creepy, but it would certainly motivate us to live each day with purpose.

if you are 42 years old, you only have 36 more Christmases left with your family. If you are 57 years old, you only have 21 more summers to enjoy at the lake. If you're 63 years old, that's 15 more birthday cakes with your family. Fifteen! That's nothing! It makes you view life more seriously, doesn't it?

Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

It's as if the future is coming to us faster than we are heading to it. I think it was the author William Gibson who suggested that global stocks of cognitive dissonance are currently so high they threaten to make the traditional idea of science fiction redundant. And once you reach my age, you tend to find that the individual days become really long, but the years get shorter, which only distorts your temporal perspective still further.

Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

It's Daniel chapter 12, verse 1. 'And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

it's clear from Scripture that a time is coming when the whole earth will fall under a grand delusion. The means through which this global deception will take place is the Antichrist, the Man of Sin. He himself

So far on my 30-day diet, I lost 18 days.

I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living!