Quotes about Urgency

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

God insists on 'Today.

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

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

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Direct threats require decisive action.