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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.


Marianne Williamson

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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
C.S. LEWIS destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to e...
C.S. LEWIS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unrea...
BRANDON MULL To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET That's certainly under review at the present time.
BILL MISKELL San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present.
PJ CROWLEY At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am...
PETER MANDELSON I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons excepti...
DAVID THOMAS A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is somethin...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON At the present time, the concerns of the international community over the Iranian nuclear program ca...
MIKHAIL KAMYNIN I'm inconsolable at the present time, I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greate...
MARIAH CAREY The major objective of the truck supply industry at the present time is focused on the provision of ...
FRANS CLOETE There are no talks with competitors at the present time... but with our share price where it is, we ...
GEORGE SIMPSON We are essentially hostages of the embassy at the present time now. We've been here 48 hours without...
JAMES SASSER When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Life is beautiful. Live every day in the present. Be grateful for who you are and appreciate the wor...
INDEPENDENT ZEN Karma only exists if eternity is taken into the equation.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...
C. S. LEWIS Your time is now. Live in the moment.
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.
HERMANN HESSE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
ALFRED WHITEHEAD He slipped a dollar bill into a machine for a plastic soda bottle. Prices and plastic bottles with c...
JAIME ALLISON PARKER Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.
AMIT RAY There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce th...
EDITH WHARTON What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past an...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We forgot about that a long time ago. The past is gone. We're more excited about the present and we ...
BRANDON HEATH right for Iraq at the present time.
ZALMAY KHALILZAD At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,
GARY HANSON Given the shortage of employment opportunities at the present time, I think the government is promot...
ERNESTO PERNIA We don't think so at the present time. Obviously, at some point, we may get more information.
LISA PAYNE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY If there is anything that mortals and immortals share in common, it is that there is nothing of grea...
AARON SANTOS The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conce...
WILLIAM HAMILTON Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
ALBERT EINSTEIN To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ...
PAMELA ANDERSON DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee...
AMBROSE BIERCE We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m...
TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne...
BOB HAMMOND The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
ROBERT PIRSIG The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these t...
GINA LAKE The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
MARTY RUBIN In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
PAULO COELHO Joy only exists in the present.
LORRIN L. LEE The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL God is not subject to the dimension of time. He dwells in eternity.
RAY COMFORT Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut...
TONY CAMPOLO Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
JOAN RIVERS The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDE The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th...
EMMET FOX The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be
JAY FRANKLIN Reality only exists in the present moment.
JIM GENOVESE The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH At the present time we are leaning toward no association. But I would caution that that could change...
MAJOR JIM BRANCH You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.
GINA GREENLEE in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsibl...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threa...
JOHN KUYPERS Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
LOUISE ARBOUR there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
NORMAN WILLIAMS The DA is about building on the good of the present for a better future. We believe Cape Town can be...
HELEN ZILLE Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t...
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time....
WILLIAM JAMES We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
GERHARD SCHROEDER I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN The present crisis has been the most predictable, the most senseless, boring and short-lived of all ...
VYACHESLAV NIKONOV This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The future is made of the same stuff as the present
SIMONE WEIL The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in
the present, ... But as
always, y...
BOB HAMMOND Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
PHAEDRUS Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T...
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love -...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ou...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will n...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness b...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spe...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it wi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it ...
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