Quotes about Duration

For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).

A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

Geological time is not money.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty

The passage of time is always relative to that which does not pass, to the timeless.

So the duration of Jehu’s reign over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

So God's eternity is not a distinct good; but is the duration of good. His immutability is still the same good, with a negation of change. So that, as I said, the fullness of the Godhead is the fullness of his understanding, consisting in his knowledge; and the fullness of his will consisting in his virtue and happiness.

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

If God has respect to something in the creature, which he views as of everlasting duration, and as rising higher and higher through that infinite duration, and that not with constantly diminishing (but perhaps an increasing) celerity;114 then he has respect to it, as, in the whole, of infinite height; though there never will be any particular time when it can be said already to have come to such a height.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.