Quotes about Time

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

The time we lose is not in overdoing what we are about, but in doing nothing.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

The only way an actual infinite could come to exist in the real world would be by being created all at once, simply in an instant. It would be a hopeless undertaking to try to form it by adding one member after another.

Why didn't God make the world sooner? In the early fifth century AD, Augustine of Hippo answered that God did not make the universe at a point in time, but "simultaneously with time." That is, he believed God had created space and time together. Modern cosmologists have come to agree that he was right about space and time, and therefore it is meaningless to ask why the big bang didn't happen earlier than it did.

Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God.

Only one life "Twill soon be past Only what's done For Christ will last".

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.