Quotes about Preparation

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Life's darker side: that's Advent.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

But Abraham believed, therefore he was young; for he who always hopes for the best becomes old, and he who is always prepared for the worst grows old early, but he who believes preserves an eternal youth.

Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepare to meet thy God. And while the storm of that bewilderment Is for a season spent, And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall, Use well the interval.