Quotes About Time

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.

Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming. - Page 184

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

Poiché mi sembrate un intenditore d'arte, vi chiedo il permesso di mostrarvi un giorno o l'altro la mia galleria, ricca di quadri antichi, tutti di grandi autori; i moderni non mi piacciono. - Avete ragione; essi hanno, almeno, un grande difetto: di non aver avuto ancora il tempo di diventare antichi.

You are young, replied Athos, and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.

until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, — `Wait and hope.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

During Life, we cultivate relationships by spending days with others. During eternity, we cultivate relationships by spending lifetimes with others.

Russians are rarely in a hurry, and like to have frequent opportunities of eating and drinking. In Russia time is not money; if it were, nearly all the subjects of the Tsar would always have a large stock of ready money on hand, and would often have great difficulty in spending it. In reality, be it parenthetically remarked, a Russian with a superabundance of ready money is a phenomenon rarely met with in real life.

I never saw a sky so blue. Rhett, it's worth living a man's whole life, if, just once, just one time, he gets to see a sky that blue.

The performance is over." The audience got up. "It's time to put on your fur coats and go home." They looked round. But it turned out that there were no fur coats and no homes.

The fossil record quietly accounts for me...

The shadows of leaves are addressed to immortality

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

They don't know this stuff because (a) their time was better spent making music; (b) they weren't interested; (c) it sounded too complicated; and/or (d) learning it was too much like being in school.

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

To be like Jesus, we must see the use of our time as a Spiritual Discipline. Having

Love God, and within the limitations He has sovereignly placed in your life at this time, do what you can.

The contemporary sluggard won't go to places he should go (such as church), saying, "It's too dangerous out there on the highways!" Or he might say, "If I discipline my time for the purpose of godliness, I might miss important things on TV or the Internet, or become so busy I won't get enough rest!" And he plops down on the couch or rolls back over in bed.

Puedes continuar orando de ese modo hasta que pase algo como esto: (1) se te acabe el tiempo o (2) se te acabe el salmo. Si se te acaba el salmo antes de que se te acabe el tiempo, entonces solo pasa la página y ve a otro salmo. Al hacerlo, no te faltará nada que decir y, lo mejor de todo es que nunca más dirás las mismas cosas de siempre sobre lo mismo de siempre.

they are direct commands. This means too little time, too many responsibilities, too many kids, too much work, too little desire, too little experience, and so on are not excuses that exempt us from the expectation to pray.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.