Quotes About Time

seems that when a person finds himself in extremis and gathers his mind and calls out, something comes awake in the highest regions of destiny. Time behaves differently when blessing is invoked.

There was a contest in Ancient Greece to find out who could write a sentence that would somehow always be true. The sentence that won the competition was "This too shall pass.

From time immemorial it has been one of the deepest longings of the human heart to strain against the erosion of one's life, to find a way of living and being that manages to find some stable ground within time, a place from where something eternal can be harvested from our disappearance. This is what all art strives for: the creation of a living permanence.

And here are we, even if we are old, we still have time, and time is always full of possibility. It would really be a great gift that an old person could give to themselves, the gift of recognizing the possibilities that are in that time, and to use their imagination. The imagination is the gateway to a full life, and people who awaken their imagination come in to a force field of possibility and there are doors opening everywhere. I think it is unknown what you can do if you begin to see it.

At a deeper level, time is but eternity living dangerously.

If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.

As we grow old, that twilight Would illuminate treasure In the fields of memory.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible.

People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. – Thomas Kelly

I remember how at night I didn't have slow, sweet talks, but merely rushed the children to bed so I could have more time to myself.

But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.

But God, in His appointed time, will vindicate His honor and glory from the foolish attempts of sinful men who attempt to strip Him of both.

The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in the course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov. 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace, and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom. 8:27).

So the first consequence of Christ's withdrawing himself from us is that inward graces grow weak and we tend to rely more and more on outside helps. Above all, we lose the desire for holy meditation and we spend less and less time with Christ. Just as frost withers the plants in the garden, so the grace in our hearts also withers when the 'Sun of Righteousness' withdraws and hides himself.

This story must be told. We live in a time of terrible crisis—and tremendous opportunity. The story of this particular economic hit man is the story of how we got to where we are and why we currently face crises that seem insurmountable.

The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely, and important tasks, however, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.

There is no reason to suppose ahead of time that the principles satisfactory for the basic structure hold for all cases.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Women are basically recreational areas, with several separate facilities available at any given time.

THEY SPENT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES plowing through the minutiae of the campaign.

that morning, and a half

Taking a little undertime today?

A digital clock punched red electronic minutes into the silence.