Quotes About Time

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

But our here and now is just a blip along the continuum.

A dusty calendar was marked with the slogan TOMORROW WILL BE EVEN BETTER. It seemed ominous that the calendar was three years old.

Texts are musical in that they take time, and the time texts take is musical time. The time of music and the time of texts always involve reaching for the next moment. Music is always moving toward the next note, and we are always reading beyond the individual word. Each sentence compels us to move forward; each paragraph carries us along to the denouement.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

All life is an emergency.

God really performs the miracle of multiplying our time, but only if we give it to him first.

Why Won't We Be Bored in Heaven? Because we are with God, and God is infinite. We never come to the end of exploring Him. He is new every day. Because we are with God, and God is eternal. Time does not pass (a condition for boredom); it just is. All time is present in eternity, as all the events of the plot are present in an author's mind. There is no waiting. Because we are with God, and God is love. Even on earth, the only people who are never bored are lovers.

Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

Praying anywhere can easily become praying nowhere, just as praying anytime can easily become praying at no time. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular.

our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.

According to God's book, there is "a time to weep and a time to laugh" (Ecclesiastes 3:4). The surest sign that our culture is in deep doo-doo is that we are increasingly sure that this is a time to weep and increasingly doubtful that it is a time to laugh.

The result of change cannot actually exist before the change.

Time matters most when decisions are irreversible.

Time matters most when decisions are irreversible. And yet many irreversible decisions must be made on the basis of incomplete information.

We are prisoners of the future because we will be ensnared by our past.

It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time! Dan hissed. Uncle Alistair doesn't think so, Amy murmured. He's a numismatist. He takes his clothes off in public? Dan said.

This, my children, Alistair said proudly, was barbecue pork. Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. Been out in the sun for a long time.

Death. Toast. The story of our lives.

I may be dead by the time you return.

Live large, because there are no extra days. -Tilt Family Motto

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come," said Victor Hugo

Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.