Quotes about Present

When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.

Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.

On the route of faith and action, along with hope, we see that the gospel we believe is far removed from the picture of a future without bearing on the present, a heavenly hope without concern for the neighbour and his world.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

Anxiety. — Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go.

Confine yourself to the present.

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.