Quotes about Time

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.

I made a difference. I changed things, but it's a little too late for me.

I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.