a man is no fool to give up that which he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. jim elliott

Believer’s Life System Helps You Keep God in the Center of All You Do

A man is no fool to give up

that which he cannot keep

to gain that which

he cannot lose.

Jim Elliott


An inscription on a sun-dial said of the hours:

“capercunt et imputantur”

They pass by, and they are charged to our account.


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.


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.


If we can gain 20 minutes each day we will gain

three 40 hour work weeks each year


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.


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


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.


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


Time is

Life


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.


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.


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.


My days are swifter than a weaver's

shuttle, And come to an

end without hope.

Job 7:6


So teach us to

number our days,

that we may present to Thee

a heart of wisdom.

Psalms 90:12


People who cannot find

time for recreation

are obliged sooner or later

to find time for illness.

John Wanamaker


Scripture rebukes slothfulness yet busyness

is not the road to godliness.


“Take my moments and my days,

Let them flow in ceaseless praise.”


The longer I live, The sooner I die; The sooner I die, The sooner I live.


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


"The wisest use of our time is to use it for that

which will out last time."


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.


Time is not an interclusion.

It is connected to eternity past and eternity future.


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.


Time is the raw material of

everything.


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.


We are not responsible for our endowments or

natural abilities, but we are responsible

for the strategic use of

time.” Oswald Sanders


Blessed be the name of the LORD, from this time forth and

forever. Psalms 113:2


Time is God's way of keeping everything

from happening at once


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


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


You can not kill time

without injuring eternity.


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


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.


For a thousand years in Your sight Are like

yesterday when it passes by, Or as a

watch in the night. Psalms 90:4


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


There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time

for every event under heaven

Ecclesiastes 3:1


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


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


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


Progress is achieved by linear

not circular action.


I wasted time, and now doth

time waste me. William Shakespeare


For there is a proper time and procedure

for every delight,though a man's

trouble is heavy upon him.

Ecclesiastes 8:6


We must use time as a tool,

not as a crutch. John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Remember that time is money

Benjamin Franklin


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


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


So teach us to number our days,

That we may present to You a heart of

wisdom. Psalms 90:12


He who has done his best for his own

time has lived for all times.

Johann von Schiller


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


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


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


Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

Thomas P. Murphy


The bad news is time flies.

The good news is you're the pilot.

Michael Althsuler


The time for action is now. It's never

too late to do something.

Carl Sandburg


Time may be a great healer, but

it's a lousy beautician.


Lost time is never found again

Benjamin Franklin


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.


Take time to deliberate, but when

the time for action arrives,

stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson


“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


History has a beginning in God, it

has its center in Christ and its end in

the final consummation and the Last Judgment.


Augustine said—“I know what time

is until you ask me.”


“Eternity is infinity

in relation to time.”

Strong


“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


Time is the opportunity that He gives us to experience and

know Him.


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.


“Time is duration measured by

successions.”

Strong


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


“…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


Man is like a mere breath;

His days are like a passing shadow.

Psalms 144:4


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.


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.


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.


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.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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"


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


Time crumbles things; everything

grows old under the power of time and is

forgotten through the

lapse of time.Aristotle, Physics


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


Time is eternity wrapped up;

eternity is time unwrapped.

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, from Pietists: Selected

Writings


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


Time is the chrysalis

of eternity. Richter


The fear of the LORD prolongs life,

But the years of the wicked

will be shortened. Proverbs 10:27


Time! The corrector where

our judgments err; the test of truth, and love; the sole

philosopher, for all beside are sophists.

Byron


All my possessions

for a moment of

time. Last words of Queen Elizabeth I


Each moment, as it passes,

is the meeting place of two eternities.


What I most value next to

eternity,is time.

Madam Swetchine


There is not a single moment

in life that we can

afford to lose. Goulburn


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


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


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the

stuff life is made of. Franklin


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.


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


Well arranged time

is the surest mark of a

well arranged mind.

Pitman


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


Count that day lost, whose slow descending

sun views from thine hand

no worthy action done.

Young


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


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


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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