Quotes about Present
Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only now that we are in the presence of God.
— Brennan Manning
Faith in the present risenness of Jesus carries with it life-changing implications for the gritty routine of daily life.
— Brennan Manning
While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.
— Henri Nouwen
Our individual as well as communal lives are so deeply molded by our worries about tomorrow that today hardly can be experienced.
— Henri Nouwen
Waiting patiently is suffering through the present moment, tasting it to the fullest in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
— Henri Nouwen
Distractions mean that we are being pulled into the past or into the future. That is what a distraction is. We start thinking about what happened yesterday or what is happening tomorrow. Distractions mean we are not yet fully here. We are not fully present yet.
— Henri Nouwen
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
— Henry David Thoreau
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
— Henry David Thoreau
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
— Henry David Thoreau
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
— Henry David Thoreau
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
— Henry David Thoreau