Quotes about Time

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. You better believe it.

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Don't try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

Anyone who, neglecting that fixed hour of prayer, [will] say he can pray at all times but will probably end in praying at no time.