Quotes about Duration

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

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

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

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.

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.

Geological time is not money.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.

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

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

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

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.