Quotes about Time

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

If you're unhappy with what you've had over the last 50 years, you have an unfortunate misappraisal of life. It's as good as it gets, and it's very likely to get worse.

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.