Life is so short and time so fleeting that much which one would wish to do must fain be omitted.   He is fortunate who perceives at a glance what it will do, and what it will not do, to omit.

He is always in such headlong haste to overtake the next minute, that he loses half the minute in hand;  and yet is full of indignation and impatience at other people’s slowness

UNFAITHFULNESS in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty.   You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.

THE problem set before us is to bring our daily task into the temple of contemplation and ply it there, to act as in the presence of God, to interfuse one’s little part with religion. 

… Amid the thronging duties, the ceaseless cares, the toilsome or pleasurable round of daily life, we must take and we must keep time to ‘commune with our own hearts and in our own chamber, and be still.’

As near as is the light to one sleeping in the light, so near is Christ

WE are too busy, too encumbered, too much occupied, too active!

The art of being quiet is necessary to enable a man to possess his own soul in peace and integrity

IT is not sin so much as triviality which hides God.