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May I be active and unwearied in doing good and improving my time etc. Amen. Live by faith above all.

—William Wilberforce

How can we easily love our neighbour as ourselves, if we consider him at the same time as our rival, and are intent upon surpassing him in the pursuit of whatever is the subject of our competition?

—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

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man’s lordship has cost us too much.

—AW Tozer

Jesus walked forth, alive!

I believe that so completely that I believe it all the time. This is not an Easter “thing” that I try to believe once a year. I believe it so fully & so completely that it is a part of my being, every moment of every day.

—AW Tozer

Time cannot exist in and by itself. God by his eternal power sustains time, both in its entirety and in each separate moment of it.

—Herman Bavinck

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.

—Cicero

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

—Marcus Aurelius

God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity. In every second throbs the heartbeat of eternity.

—Herman Bavinck

God remains eternal and inhabits eternity, but uses time with a view to manifesting his eternal thoughts and perfections. He makes time subservient to eternity and thus proves himself to be the King of the ages (1 Tim. 1:17).

—Herman Bavinck

Time is not a separate substance, a real something, but a mode of existence. If there were no creatures, there would be no time.

—Herman Bavinck

It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as a kind of benign magic, or to expect God’s help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known & met. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer & devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

—Tozer

It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

—Marcus Aurelius

God pervades time and every moment of time with his eternity; he maintains a definite relation to time, entering into it with his eternity. Between eternity and time there is a distinction not only in quantity and degree but also in quality and essence.

—Herman Bavinck

I was resigned to God’s will, to tarry his time, to do his work, and suffer his pleasure.

—David Brainerd

Time appeared a moment, life a vapour, and all its enjoyments as empty bubbles, and fleeting blasts of wind.

—David Brainerd

O what reason of thankfulness have I on account of this retirement! I find that I do not, and it seems I cannot, lead a Christian life when I am abroad, and cannot spend time in devotion, Christian conversation, and serious meditation, as I should do.

—David Brainerd

Truly God is a ‘present help in time of trouble.’

—David Brainerd

To think of a grave is not pleasant in itself, but to think of a parting time with sin, that’s sweet and pleasant indeed.

—John Flavel

If yet your heart hangs back (from thoughts of death), consider the great advantage you will have by death above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come.

—John Flavel

We must learn to see God in his holy temple above the flux of history, and above the changing scenes of time.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

When a man compares himself with others: thus measuring ourselves by ourselves, and comparing ourselves among ourselves, we show our folly and nourish our pride; but if any man will compare his own life with Christ’s, he will find abundant cause at every time to be humbled.

—John Flavel

The sincere soul hates sin with an irreconcilable hatred. There was a time when sin and his soul fell out, but there never will be a time of reconciliation between them again.

—John Flavel

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

It is not needful to be on your knees all the time, but the heart should be on its knees all the time.

—R. A. Torrey

I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.

—R. A. Torrey

You can tell a man who is filled by the Holy Spirit; he is all the time talking about Christ, has nothing to say of himself, but is constantly holding Jesus Christ up as an all-sufficient Savior.

—D. L. Moody

Never let the rush of business crowd out prayer. Prayer is the greatest time saver known to man. The more work crowds you, the more time you should take for prayer.

—R. A. Torrey

We must not allow the devil to take advantage of us, and make us believe that God does not love us because He does not grant all our petitions in the time and way we would have Him do.

—D. L. Moody

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer, we have got to be closeted with God.

—D. L. Moody