Quotes about Present
No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn't suit the moment. I
— Lisa Wingate
Because in a time of financial crisis like the present, money is what ammunition is to a soldier in a hostile country - don't let's waste our powder.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
— Philip Yancey
Like everyone else, evangelicals have a right to present arguments on all the issues, but the moment we present them as part of some "Christian" platform we abandon our moral high ground.
— Philip Yancey
It was no accident, I believe, that Jesus spoke his triumphant words, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, even as Roman soldiers were buckling on weapons for his arrest. He knew how to judge the present by the future.
— Philip Yancey
When a couple encounters a crisis, it magnifies what's already present in the relationship.
— Philip Yancey
Apart from forgiveness, the monstrous past may awake at any time from hibernation to devour the present. And also the future.
— Philip Yancey
I understand that the current conditions in your life may not be your favorite thing to dwell on right now. You may have become very adept at concentrating on later, distracting yourself with the possibilities of the future. You may have grown accustomed to looking the other direction, daydreaming your life away, too overwhelmed at this point to even try figuring out solutions anymore for your present reality.
— Priscilla Shirer
Elisabeth Elliot, has said, "One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was, 'Do the next thing.'" Instead of getting all hung up on looking for the grand scope of God's will for your life, just do what He's called you to do right now. That's all that really matters. Now.
— Priscilla Shirer
Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.
— Dennis Prager
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
— George Eliot
Today is a part of eternity.
— Gordon Hinckley