A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other to let their souls blend in a soft whisper so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can as it were creep into God.
In the name of God stop a moment cease your work look around you.
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage everything that binds vanishes and I am free.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes and say 'O God forgive me ' or 'Help me.'
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news but in hindsight I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
I enjoy every minute because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
In retrospect the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
Fascism the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
Since God knows our future our personalities and our capacity to listen He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Learn from the past set vivid detailed goals for the future and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Do not dwell in the past do not dream of the future concentrate the mind on the present moment.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life and the promise of future accomplishments.