Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. . . Confusion here is fatal.
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.
I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in power in Mississippi still seem to be invested in these very American myths. "The individual is alone. " "We pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. " "We create success for ourselves, and if we work hard enough then we will succeed and have success beyond our wildest dreams. " I think that we need to do away with that kind of thinking and be more aware of history and how the history of this place bears in the present and how it affects people.
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.
I really believe in the value of just being more present with the people you're around.
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus. . . . He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.