Quotes on Time & Transience
Christian quotes on Time & Transience — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
My past no longer concerns me. It belongs to God's mercy. My future does not yet concern me. It belongs to divine providence. What concerns me, and what claims me, is today - it belongs to God's grace and to the surrender of my heart, my good will.
Francis de Sales
This is the end – for me the beginning of life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals; and our Holy of Holies is a shrine that neither the Romans nor the Germans were able to burn.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives.
Sophie Scholl
From God's hand I received my life; under God's hand I shape my life; into God's hand I return my life.
Augustine of Hippo
Everything lasts its own time, God's love for eternity.
Paul Gerhardt
The trees stand full of leaves, the earth covers its dust with a green garment; the narcissus and the tulip dress themselves far more beautifully than Solomon's silk.
Paul Gerhardt
The end of our life will be a pause in the middle of the furrow. The Lord reserves for himself to complete our works and give them the final polish.
Pope John XXIII
The day is the boundary of our worry and toil. It is long enough to find God or to lose him, to keep faith or to fall into sin and shame. That is why God created day and night, so that we would not wander in the boundless, but already in the morning see before us the goal of the evening.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The past should be a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back.
Warren Wiersbe
Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Patience! patience! you are always in a hurry, but God is not.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All growing in nature, in human beings, in love must wait, be patient, until its time to bloom comes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most important hour is always the present. The most important person is always the one standing right before you. The most important deed is always love.
Meister Eckhart
The sky is full of birds, the purple lupins stand up so regally and peacefully, two little old women have sat down on the box for a chat, the sun is shining on my face — and right before our eyes, mass murder. The whole thing is simply beyond comprehension.
Etty Hillesum
My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed—and each of the five has been me.
Tim Keller
I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
Dallas Willard
Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.
Vavasor Powell
My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man lives and endures but a little while; and all the world with its splendor passes away. There is only One who is eternal in every place, and we are in his hands.
Matthias Claudius
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
God created time, but he said nothing about hurry.
Irisches Sprichwort
I eat what tastes good to me, and I die when God wills.
Martin Luther
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a “wandering to find home,” why should we not look forward to the arrival?
C.S. Lewis
For we brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of the world (1 Tim. 6:7). There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.
John Piper
I preached as never sure to preach again and as a dying man to dying men.
Richard Baxter
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
George Whitefield
Every new morning is a new beginning of our life. Every day is a self-contained whole.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
John Charles Ryle
There are two great days in a person's life: the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it, I do not know.
Augustine of Hippo
We are the times: such as we are, so are the times.
Augustine of Hippo
I have made this letter longer because I lacked the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
In gratitude I gain the right relationship to my past.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
People quoted here
Anselm Grün, Craig Groeschel, Francis de Sales, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Helen Keller, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Sophie Scholl, Augustine of Hippo, Paul Gerhardt, Pope John XXIII
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