Only Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present.
May your P&L account of deeds for humanity be in profits; for you have to present the your Balance Sheet on the Judgment Day.
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.
I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.
Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.
Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.
The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.
