Our Present Quotes
228 quotes by 196 authors
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The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out…
— Francis Harold Cook
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But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change…
— Gustav Stresemann
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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges…
— Sri Aurobindo
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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we…
— Regis Debray
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Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
— Judah Smith
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We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
— Bobby Sands
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When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is…
— David Richo
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From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . .…
— Freeman Dyson
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We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not…
— R. D. Laing
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Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no…
— Jeff Belanger
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It’s important to let go, calm down, and get grounded. We need to listen to ourselves. When one becomes aware that our present-moment thoughts are…
— Horst Rechelbacher
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God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Humanity must never lose hope. Our present conflicts and differences are difficult but not hopeless. We cannot expect people of such different races, cultures, languages,…
— Robert Muller
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Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of…
— Frank Howard Clark
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The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live…
— Lyman Spitzer
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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of…
— Eric Hoffer
Who Wrote These Our Present Quotes
196 authors contributed a total of 228 Our Present Quotes, led by these top contributors: