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Quotes About Time

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!
~ Thomas a Kempis
God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.
~ Tony Snow
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
~ Herbert Butterfield
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day
~ Khaled Hosseini
I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?
~ Laura Riding
You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.
~ Lauryn Hill
Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
~ Albert Camus
God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.
~ Chris Fabry
Oh God, you know what would be really good for me is a dog locater - it would save me the hours that I have to spend looking for my dog.
~ Tom Felton
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
~ Pliny the Elder
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
~ Rowan Williams
I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."
~ Angela Lansbury
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
~ Bernard Malamud
God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.
~ Francis Chan
You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
~ Francois Fenelon
God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
~ George Herbert
God has the experience that comes from billions of years.
~ James Cook
You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.
~ John Wilson
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
~ Lew Wallace
God always has patience.
~ Pope Francis
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
~ Malcolm de Chazal