Quotes about Now

If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

When we're sitting, we're truly there in the present moment; we have come home, we have arrived. We are present in that time and place; we're not pulled away by the past, the future, or by anger or jealousy in the present.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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.

What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.

It's today I must be living.

Mother Teresa observed, "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Success always comes at a price. That is a lesson I learned a long time ago. My father taught me that a person can pay now and play later, or he can play now and pay later. Either way, he is going to pay.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't some long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension between here and now, where thinking and time cuts out. If you won't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity is right here and now is the function of life.