"The present is the only time in..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
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“If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.”
“And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.”
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“The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”
“Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.”
“A day is a miniature eternity.”