Quotes about Present

God says that he will give you grace to handle the disappointments that lie ahead; your task is to live for him in the present. At first, this feels reckless, as if you were enjoying the thrill of a speeding car when you are courting devastation at the next turn. But it isn't reckless to trust in God rather than yourself.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of memory, not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

This resistance to change is so common, in fact, that it is almost what we expect from religious people, who tend to love the past more than the future or the present.

All that each of us can do is to live in the now that is given. We cannot rush the process;

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.