Quotes about Urgency

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

Ultimately, I believe that God loves and wants a relationship with every human being, but with Laura I could feel God's urgency.

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.

Between any trial and the blessing that comes from that trial, there is a pathway we must walk — that pathway is perseverance. Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency. And, while the joy of the blessing may seem a long way off, signposts or mile markers of joy line the way. These will help us persevere with resolve and consistency if we "consider" them.

When all of life feels like an urgent rush from one demand to another, we become forgetful. We forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really?

If not us, who? If not now, when?

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

In the morning consider that you may not live till evening, and when evening comes do not dare to promise yourself the dawn.

If we were immortal, we could legitimately postpone every action forever. [...] But in the face of death as absolute finis to our future and boundary to our possibilities, we are under the imperative of utilizing our lifetimes to the utmost, not letting the singular opportunities - whose finite sum constitutes the whole of life - pass by unused.

You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?