Quotes about Time
When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.
— Donald Miller
If you don't love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them, you get pleasure from their pleasure and it makes it easy to serve. I didn't love God because I didn't know God. universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.
— Donald Miller
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
— Donald Miller
I worried this course was going to be a waste of time. I was wrong. I made more progress in six hours than I've made in ten years.
— Donald Miller
The same is true in social relationships. Commitment in a relationship takes time.
— Donald Miller
His conclusion was that the human body displayed physical evidence that we are not the same person we were when we were kids, or even a season before. He said we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.
— Donald Miller
The theistic evolutionist considers the days in Genesis as periods of time, long periods of time. I do not believe that is true. God's marking off the creative days with the words, "And the evening and the morning were the first day," etc., makes it clear that He was not referring to long periods of time but to actual twenty-four hour days.
— J. Vernon McGee
We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
— JC Ryle
Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
— JC Ryle
It is useless to say you have no time. There is plenty of time, if men will employ it. Time may be short, but time is always long enough for prayer. Daniel had the affairs of a kingdom on his hands, and yet he prayed three times a day. David was ruler over a mighty nation, and yet he says, "Evening and morning and at noon will I pray" (Psalms 55:17). When time is really wanted, time can always be found.
— JC Ryle
Think too about what the promise contains, before you refuse to take comfort from it. It speaks of a certain time when good training will bear fruit — when a child is old. Surely, there is comfort in this. You may not see with your own eyes the result of careful training, but you don't know what blessed fruits will spring from it long after you are dead and gone.
— JC Ryle
At all events we are not likely in this day to err on the side of praying too much. Might it not rather be feared that many believers in this generation pray too little? Is not the actual amount of time that many Christians give to prayer in the aggregate very small? I am afraid these questions cannot be answered satisfactorily. I am afraid the private devotions of many are most painfully scanty and limited,—just enough to prove they are alive, and no more.
— JC Ryle