Quotes about Moment
For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.
- Graham Greene
While the true God lives in the now, false gods always live in the past or future. Chasing them to find our worth and significance always takes us out of the present moment.
- Gregory Boyd
The challenge, then, is not first and foremost to love like Christ. The challenge is to live in Christ's love, for only then can we love as Christ loved. And as with everything else about our lives, this can only be done in each present moment.
- Gregory Boyd
What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?
- Robert Brault
He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.
- LM Montgomery
What a splendid day! Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.
- LM Montgomery
I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears
- Timothy Keller
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel