Quotes about Time

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss

Hate may have its hour, but love will have its day.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

The trouble with life in America today is not that we work too much but that our free time is too much engaged in play and amusement so that too little of it is left for the kind of leisure activities that really are the most profitable part of human life.

A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.