Quotes about Time

Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is not simply a legacy of Victorian values but a perpetual sign, joyfully renewed week by week, that all time belongs to God and stands under the renewing lordship of Jesus Christ.4

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

Provost John Mark Reynolds, for a position as professor and scholar in residence that gave me time to write Finding Truth.

It takes time to establish trust in something or someone because it requires consistent and continuous behavior demonstrated over time. That is why our relationships are so fragile. It may take months or years to establish a high level of trust, but one act of unfaithfulness can destroy it. We can choose to forgive those who betray us, but it would take a long time to regain the trust that was lost.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars — it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.