The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

The present moment is the greatest gift we have from God, but if we are not present we miss it.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? William Arthur Ward6

Seizing the day is all about making the best choices possible each day of your life.

There is no substitute for time. Giving time is giving life to others.

So what does this mean for a church trying to reach out to an internet-based generation? Here are some internet browsing statistics that may cause you to rethink everything: average length watched of a single internet video: 2.7 minutes percent of page views that last less than 4 seconds: 17 percent of page views that last more than 10 minutes: 4 percent of words read on web pages with 111 words or less: 49 percent of words read on an average (593 words) web page: 286.

We are perfectly designed to achieve what we are currently achieving. If Christianity is in decline, at least part of the issue goes to the contemporary way we live out faith in a watching world.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!