Quotes about Time

When it comes to God] We can't run out of second chances...only time.

While we're obsessed with here and now, God is focused on forever.

Elizabeth just made her confession of faith, and Jesus wasn't even born yet.

The past is what the present is doing now.

But it was not to remain thus. Still once more Abraham was to be tried. He had fought with that cunning power which invents everything, with that alert enemy which never slumbers, with that old man who outlives all things—he had fought with Time and preserved his faith. Now all the terror of the strife was concentrated in one instant.

By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity .

However, a self, every instant it exists, is in process of becoming, for the self [potentially] does not actually exist, it is only that which it is to become. In so far as the self does not become itself, it is not its own self; but not to be one's own self is despair.

To go beyond Hegel is a miracle, but to get beyond Abraham is the easiest thing of all. I for my part have devoted a good deal of time to the understanding of the Hegelian philosophy, I believe also that I understand it tolerably well, but when in spite of the trouble I have taken there are certain passages I cannot understand, I am foolhardy enough to think that he himself has not been quite clear. All

O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will sing Your praise unending ten thousand years and then forevermore

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.