Quotes about Time

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.