A man is no fool to give up
that which he cannot keep
to gain that which
he cannot lose.
Jim Elliott
An inscription on a sun-dial
said of the hours:
“capercunt et imputantur”
They pass by, and they are
charged to our account.
God has given us all the time we need
to do His will.
Or in another way, His will does not
require more time than He has given us.
Doing things that He has not given us to
do consumes time we should be using for
His will.
Godliness results from a
disciplined spiritual life,
that is,
spending our time doing what is
the best thing
for our good and
God’s Glory.
If we can gain 20 minutes
each day we will gain
three 40 hour
work weeks each year
I have just a little minute,
Only sixty seconds in it,
Forced upon me, cannot refuse it.
Did not seek it, did not choose it,
But it is up to me to use it.
I must suffer if I abuse it,
Just a tiny, little minute,
But eternity is in it.
Man never achieves a clear
knowledge of himself
unless he has first looked upon
God's face, and then descends
from contemplating Him
to scrutinize him self."
John Calvin
Misuse of time is a sin like wasting
money.
Buying things that we don’t need
is like doing things with our time
that we shouldn’t.
Yet you do not know what
your life will be like
tomorrow.
You are just a vapor that
appears for a little while
and then vanishes away.
Jam 4:14
Time
is
Life
My whole desire deeply turns away,
Out of all time unto eternal Day,
I give myself, and all I call my own,
To Christ forever, to be His alone.
No trifling in this life of mine;
Not this the path the blessed Master trod;
But every hour and power employed,
Always and all for God.
One who says he is “too busy”
but never manages his time,
is like the one who
constantly bounces checks
but refuses to look at his bank
statement.
My days are swifter
than a weaver's
shuttle,
And come to an end
without hope.
Job 7:6
So teach us to
number our days,
that we may present to Thee
a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:12
People who cannot find
time for recreation
are obliged sooner or later
to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker
Scripture rebukes
slothfulness yet busyness
is not
the road to godliness.
“Take my moments and
my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless
praise.”
The longer I live,
The sooner I die;
The sooner I die,
The sooner I live.
These lines were found engraved on a sundial:
The shadow of my finger cast
Divides the future from the past;
Before it stands the unborn hour
In darkness and beyond thy power.
Behind its unreturning line
The vanished hour, no longer thine;
One hour alone is in thy hands,
The now on which the shadow stands.
Author Unknown
"The wisest use of our
time is to use it for that
which will
out last time."
Time is a non-refundable and
non-recycling commodity.
It is a gift from God.
Once it is gone
it is gone forever.
We cannot produce time.
Time is not an
interclusion.
It is connected to
eternity past and
eternity future.
Time is the preface to eternity.
And as the preface indicates the
character of the volume,
so the present use of time
is the foreshadowing
in each one's history
of the future.
Time is
the raw material of
everything.
Time management is a
“figure of speech.”
We really don’t manage
time. We manage our
activities and our energy
in the use of time.
We are not responsible
for our endowments or
natural abilities,
but we are responsible for
the strategic use of time.”
Oswald Sanders
Blessed be the name of
the LORD, from this
time forth and forever.
Psalms 113:2
Time is God's way of
keeping everything
from
happening at once
As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field,
so he flourishes.
When the wind has passed over it,
it is no more, and its place
acknowledges it no longer.
But the lovingkindness of the LORD
is from everlasting to everlasting on
those who fear Him,
Psalms 103:15-17
There are many fine things
which you mean to do some
day, under what you think
will be more favorable
circumstances.
But the only time that is
yours is the present.
Grenville Kleiser
You can not kill time
without injuring
eternity.
He has made everything
appropriate in its time.
He has also set eternity in
their heart, yet so that man
will not find out the work
which God has done from
the beginning
even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
When as a child I laughed and wepttime crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talkedtime walked.
When I became a fully grown mantime ran.
When older still I daily grewtime flew.
Soon I’ll find in journeying ontime gone.
For a thousand years in
Your sight Are like
yesterday when it
passes by, Or as a watch
in the night.
Psalms 90:4
There are some things which cannot
be learned quickly, and time, which
is all we have, must be paid heavily
for their acquiring.
They are the very simplest things,
and because it takes a man's life to
know them the little new that each
man gets from life is very costly and
the only heritage he has to leave.
Ernest Hemingway
There is an appointed
time for everything.
And there is a time for
every event under
heaven
Ecclesiastes 3:1
Now is the only time there is.
Make your now wow, your
minutes miracles, and your
days pay. Your life will have
been magnificently lived and
invested, and when you die
you will have made a
difference.
Mark Victor Hansen
As for the days of our life,
they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty
years, Yet their pride is but
labor and sorrow; For soon
it is gone and we fly away.
Psalms 90:10
Time is a fixed income
and, as with any income,
the real problem facing
most of us is how to live
successfully within our
daily allotment.
Margaret B. Johnstone
Progress is achieved
by linear
not
circular action.
I wasted time,
and now doth
time waste me.
William Shakespeare
For there is a proper
time and procedure
for every delight,
though a man's trouble
is heavy upon him.
Ecclesiastes 8:6
We must use time
as a tool,
not as a crutch.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Remember that
time is money
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the coin of your
life. It is the only coin you
have, and only you can
determine how it will be
spent. Be careful lest you
let other people spend it
for you.
Carl Sandburg
You have to allow a
certain amount of time in
which you are doing
nothing in order to have
things occur to you,
to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adler
So teach us to
number our days,
That we may present to
You a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:12
He who has done
his best for his own
time has lived
for all times.
Johann von Schiller
Time is too slow for those
who wait, too swift for
those who fear, too long
for those who grieve, too
short for those who
rejoice, but for those who
love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Do not wait; the time will
never be ''just right.'' Start
where you stand, and work
with whatever tools you may
have at your command, and
better tools will be found as
you go along.
Napoleon Hill
I have noticed that the
people who are late are
often so much jollier
than the people who
have to wait for them
E.V. Lucas
Minutes are worth
more than money.
Spend them wisely.
Thomas P. Murphy
The bad news is
time flies.
The good news is
you're the pilot.
Michael Althsuler
The time for action is
now. It's never too
late
to do something.
Carl Sandburg
Time may be
a great healer, but
it's
a lousy beautician.
Lost time is never
found again
Benjamin Franklin
What is a
“Time Management System” ?
“Time” = A little gap between
two eternities.
“Management” = control for a purpose
“System” = a blend of methods
and equipment.
Take time to deliberate,
but when the time
for action arrives,
stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
“Instead of viewing time
abstractly as a problem,
the Bible regards time as
a created sphere in which
God’s redemptive plan is
actualized.”
Carl Henry in Dictionary of Theology
History has a beginning
in God, it has its center
in Christ and its end in
the final consummation
and the Last Judgment.
Augustine said—
“I know what time is
until you ask me.”
“Eternity is infinity
in relation to
time.”
Strong
“Dante speaks of God as
him in whom ‘every where
and every when are
focused in a point,’ that is,
to whom ever season is
now and every place here.”
Strong
Time is the
opportunity that He
gives us to
experience and know
Him.
Man’s future history is
hinged upon His presence
(parousia) in His second
coming.
The first presence of
Christ divides time.
The second presence of
Christ ends time.
“Time is duration
measured by
successions.”
Strong
While we look not at the
things which are seen, but at
the things which are not
seen; for the things which
are seen are temporal, but
the things which are not
seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18
“…Time and space are
fragments of the Infinite
for the use of finite
creatures, God permits
them that He may not be
alone. They are the mode
under which creatures are
possible and conceivable.”
Strong
Man is like a
mere breath;
His days are like a
passing shadow.
Psalms 144:4
There are 8,736 hours in a year. If we
subtract 1/3 for sleeping, there remains
5,824 conscious hours. 10% of our
conscious hours would be 582 hours, a tithe
of our awake time. 582 divide by 52 is
11hours per week that we could God as a
tithe of our time. If we spend four hours in
formal church worship, that would leave 1
hour per day including Sunday for personal
and secret relationship with God.
If men were as lavish with their
money as they are with their time; if
it were as common a thing for them
to throw away their money as it is
for them to throwaway their time,
we would think them beside
themselves, and not in possession
of their right minds. Yet time is a
thousand times
more precious than money.
My whole desire deeply
turns away
Out of all time unto eternal
Day,
I give myself, and all I call
my own
To Christ forever,
to be His alone.
Phrases that indicate poor
“Time Management”:
“I forgot that.”
“I didn’t know that.”
“Where did that come from.”
“I don’t remember where I
put it.”
“You don’t know how busy I
am.”
“I wrote it down somewhere.”
Spend your time in nothing which you
know must be repented of; in nothing
on which you might not pray for the
blessing of God, in nothing which you
could not review with a quiet
conscience on your dying bed. In
nothing which you might not safely
and properly be found doing if death
should surprise you in the act.”
Baxter
Over your lifetime you can expect to spend:
2.5 years driving a car
6 months waiting at red lights
5 years waiting in line
6 years eating
2 years trying to return phone calls to
people who never seem to be in
1 year looking for misplaced objects
23 years in bed
7 years in the bathroom
8 months opening junk mail
Time has no divisions to mark its
passage; there is never a thunderstorm
or blare of trumpets to announce the
beginning of a new month or year.
Even when a new century begins, it is
only we mortals who ring bells and
fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
What, then, is time? I
know well enough what it
is, provided that nobody
asks me, but if I am asked
what it is and try to
explain, I am baffled.
Augustine, Confessions
Noble machine with toothed
wheels
Lacerates the day and divides it
in hours …
Speeds on the course of the
fleeing century,
And to make it open up,
Knocks every hour at the tomb.
Ciro di Pers, 17th-century poet, writing about clocks
Every act should be
performed as
though all eternity
depended on it.
Franz Rosenzweig, in Nahum H. Glatzer's Franz
Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
Time sometimes flies like
a bird, sometimes crawls
like a snail, but a man is
happiest when he does
not even notice whether it
passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev, "Quote of the Day"
The time has come to talk
back, to insist that clocks
are made for men
and not vice versa.
Timeliness is more
important than efficiency.
Sam Keen, To a Dancing God
Time crumbles things;
everything grows old
under the power of time
and is forgotten
through the
lapse of time.
Aristotle, Physics
When you sit with a nice
girl for two hours, it
seems like two minutes;
when you sit on a hot
stove for two minutes, it
seems like two hours.
That's relativity.
Albert Einstein, quoted in the Chicago Tribune
Time is eternity
wrapped up;
eternity is time
unwrapped.
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, from Pietists: Selected Writings
LORD, make me to
know my end and
what is the extent
of my days;
Let me know
how transient I am.
Psalms 39:4
Time is the
chrysalis
of eternity.
Richter
The fear of the LORD
prolongs life,
But the years of the wicked
will be shortened.
Proverbs 10:27
Time! The corrector
where our judgments
err; the test of truth,
and love; the sole
philosopher, for all
beside are sophists.
Byron
All my
possessions
for a
moment of time.
Last words of Queen Elizabeth I
Each moment,
as it passes,
is the meeting
place of two
eternities.
What I most
value next to
eternity,
is time.
Madam Swetchine
There is not a
single moment
in life
that we can
afford to lose.
Goulburn
Pastime is a word that
should never be used
but in a bad sense; it is
vile to say a thing is
agreeable, because it
helps to pass
the time away.
Shenstone
Spare moments are the gold
dust of time; of all the
portions of our life, the
spare minutes are the most
fruitful in good or evil.
They are gaps
through which temptations
find easiest access to
the garden of the soul
Dost thou love life?
Then do not
squander time,
for that is the stuff
life is made of.
Franklin
Time was, is past;
Thou canst not it recall:
Time is, thou hast;
employ the portion small;
Time future, is not;
And may never be:
Time present,
is the only time for thee.
We sleep, but the loom of
life never stops, and the
pattern which was
weaving when the sun
went down is weaving
when it comes up
in the morning.
H. W. Beecher
Well arranged
time
is the surest mark
of a
well arranged
mind.
Pitman
Observe a method in the
distribution of your time. Every
hour will then know its proper
employment, and no time will
be lost. Idleness will be shut
out at every avenue, and with
her, that numerous body of
vices, that make up her train. G
George Horne
Count that day lost,
whose slow descending
sun
views from thine hand
no worthy action
done.
Young
Know the true value of time;
snatch, seize, and enjoy
every moment of it.
No idleness; no laziness;
no procrastination;
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do today.
Chesterfield
Much may be done in those
little shreds and patches of
time, which every day
produces, and which most
men throw away, but which
nevertheless will make at the
end of it no small deduction
from the life of man.
Colton
Time hurries on with a
resistless, unremitting
stream, yet treads more soft
than e’er did midnight thief
that slides his hand under
the miser’s pillow, and
carries off his prize.
Blair