Life is so short. Hurry up to do good!
“Buying a cyclical after several years of record earnings and when the P/E ratio has hit a low point is a proven method for losing half of your money in a short period of time.”
In short, Christ and all His benefits, the love of the Father, and the grace of the Son, become our portion only in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
—Herman Bavinck
Do not slumber or sleep, but be always trimming your spiritual lamp, knowing you are shortly to meet the bridegroom.
—George Whitefield
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
—Voltaire
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
—Michelangelo
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
—Blaise Pascal
I made this letter very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
—Seneca
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
O guide us and direct us and teach us to remember practically that the time is short.
—William Wilberforce
Remember that you’re not standing still, but passing through, that you’re not in a house but on a train that’s taking you toward death. Remember that your body is just passing through and lives for a short time and that only the spirit within you truly lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
—Cicero
God will shortly put a blessed end to all your troubles, cares, and watchings. The time is coming when your heart will be as you would have it, when you will be discharged of these cares, fears & sorrows and never cry out, Oh my hard, proud, vain & earthly heart anymore.
—John Flavel
Your soul shall shortly stand before the face of God and have the immediate emanations and beamings forth of His glory upon it.
—John Flavel
Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
The law of faith then, in short, is for every one to believe what God requires him to believe, as a condition of the covenant he makes with him: and not to doubt of the performance of his promises.
—John Locke