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A man is no fool to give up
that which he cannot keep
to gain that which
he cannot lose.
Jim Elliott
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An inscription on a sun-dial said of the hours:
“capercunt et imputantur”
They pass by, and they are charged to our account.
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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.
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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.
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If we can gain 20 minutes each day we will gain
three 40 hour work weeks each year
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Time is
Life
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My days are swifter than a weaver's
shuttle, And come to an
end without hope.
Job 7:6
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So teach us to
number our days,
that we may present to Thee
a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:12
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People who cannot find
time for recreation
are obliged sooner or later
to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker
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Scripture rebukes slothfulness yet busyness
is not the road to godliness.
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“Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.”
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The longer I live, The sooner I die; The sooner I die, The sooner I live.
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These lines were found engraved on a sundial:
The shadow of my finger castDivides the future from the past;
Before it stands the unborn hour In darkness and beyond thy power.
Behind its unreturning lineThe vanished hour, no longer thine;
One hour alone is in thy hands, The now on which the shadow stands.
Author Unknown
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"The wisest use of our time is to use it for that
which will out last time."
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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.
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Time is not an interclusion.
It is connected to eternity past and eternity future.
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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.
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Time is the raw material of
everything.
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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.
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We are not responsible for our endowments or
natural abilities, but we are responsible
for the strategic use of
time.” Oswald Sanders
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Blessed be the name of the LORD, from this time forth and
forever. Psalms 113:2
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Time is God's way of keeping everything
from happening at once
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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
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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
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You can not kill time
without injuring eternity.
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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
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When as a child I laughed and wept-time crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked-time walked.
When I became a fully grown man-time ran.
When older still I daily grew-time flew.
Soon I’ll find in journeying on-time gone.
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For a thousand years in Your sight Are like
yesterday when it passes by, Or as a
watch in the night. Psalms 90:4
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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
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There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time
for every event under heaven
Ecclesiastes 3:1
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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
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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
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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
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Progress is achieved by linear
not circular action.
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I wasted time, and now doth
time waste me. William Shakespeare
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For there is a proper time and procedure
for every delight,though a man's
trouble is heavy upon him.
Ecclesiastes 8:6
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We must use time as a tool,
not as a crutch. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Remember that time is money
Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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So teach us to number our days,
That we may present to You a heart of
wisdom. Psalms 90:12
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He who has done his best for his own
time has lived for all times.
Johann von Schiller
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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
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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
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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
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Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
Thomas P. Murphy
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The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
Michael Althsuler
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The time for action is now. It's never
too late to do something.
Carl Sandburg
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Time may be a great healer, but
it's a lousy beautician.
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Lost time is never found again
Benjamin Franklin
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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.
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Take time to deliberate, but when
the time for action arrives,
stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
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“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
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History has a beginning in God, it
has its center in Christ and its end in
the final consummation and the Last Judgment.
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Augustine said—“I know what time
is until you ask me.”
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“Eternity is infinity
in relation to time.”
Strong
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“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
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Time is the opportunity that He gives us to experience and
know Him.
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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.
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“Time is duration measured by
successions.”
Strong
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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
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“…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
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Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.
Psalms 144:4
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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Over your lifetime you can expect to spend:
2.5 years driving a car6 months waiting at red lights5 years waiting in line6 years eating2 years trying to return phone calls to people who never seem to be in1 year looking for misplaced objects23 years in bed7 years in the bathroom8 months opening junk mail
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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Time crumbles things; everything
grows old under the power of time and is
forgotten through the
lapse of time.Aristotle, Physics
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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
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Time is eternity wrapped up;
eternity is time unwrapped.
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, from Pietists: Selected
Writings
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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
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Time is the chrysalis
of eternity. Richter
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The fear of the LORD prolongs life,
But the years of the wicked
will be shortened. Proverbs 10:27
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Time! The corrector where
our judgments err; the test of truth, and love; the sole
philosopher, for all beside are sophists.
Byron
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All my possessions
for a moment of
time. Last words of Queen Elizabeth I
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Each moment, as it passes,
is the meeting place of two eternities.
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What I most value next to
eternity,is time.
Madam Swetchine
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There is not a single moment
in life that we can
afford to lose. Goulburn
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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
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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
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the
stuff life is made of. Franklin
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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.
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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
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Well arranged time
is the surest mark of a
well arranged mind.
Pitman
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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
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Count that day lost, whose slow descending
sun views from thine hand
no worthy action done.
Young
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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
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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
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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
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