Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Every breath we take is a gift of grace. Every heartbeat, undeserved. Life and death are finally in the hands of God:

Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!

Don't waste another day of your life.

We know life is short and eternity is long. This eternal perspective does not take us out of the world. It gives us freedom from self-pity.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

O that you would realize that each moment is golden.