Quotes of: Present-life Keyword

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

The Autobiography of My Mother

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning’s hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is forgotten, and the soul is inspired with faith in the future…

Independent People

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

I'll Be Seeing You

Christ's humanity is presentation, His words & works are the substance encapsulating his Divinity". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

Just the Way I Feel

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

Killosophy

It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.

The Restful Mind

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

Rapture

Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

Roverandom

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

The Screwtape Letters

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

My Name Is Asher Lev

The Gaians sneered at the Zhore behind their backs, calling them pacifists, as if that word were an insult, but Lirzhan did not take it as such. A peaceful solution was always best, but if one did not present itself, then so be it.

The Mandala Maneuver

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

Mastery

The best birthday present is an empty box. Smile, it contains all my love for you.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Nothing Special

The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.

Laughing Buddha

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.

Lud-in-the-Mist