Quotes about Time
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
— Donald Miller
The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.
— Helen Keller
We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.
— Paul Washer
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
— MFK Fisher
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.
— Charles Spurgeon
Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.
— CS Lewis
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
— Alice Hoffman
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
— Anne Lamott
You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius