The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm grateful for the past.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present / our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love / everything that moves us most deeply.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled