Quotes about Time
The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day—but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.
- Andrew Murray
It is always easier to be engaged with the Christianity of the past or the future than to be faithful in the Christianity of today.
- Andrew Murray
How little we understand that we need enough time with God for His light to shine into the depths of our hearts and fill our lives.
- Andrew Murray
We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them. The Kingdom should be first every day, and all the day.
- Andrew Murray
As God is Spirit, not bound by space or time, but in His infinite perfection always and everywhere the same, so His worship would henceforth no longer be confined by place or form, but spiritual as God Himself is spiritual.
- Andrew Murray
places. A man who seeks to pray earnestly in the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of his whole
- Andrew Murray
God has priority over your time, no matter what else must be neglected. Only then will you be able to submit yourself fully to the will of God. If, from day to day, you persevere with dedication, time will no longer be a question.
- Andrew Murray
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days. (So why should you and I? ~ this latter part is added by Napoleon Hill)
- Samuel Johnson
How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.
- Samuel Johnson
To me,' said the Princess, 'the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
- Samuel Johnson