Thursday, April 10, 2014

"Nothing is so precious as time; and yet how comes it that nothing is so little valued? Men will spend hours in jesting, or standing at the window or in the middle of a road, to see what passes; and if you ask them what they are doing, they will tell you they are passing away time.

O Time, now so much despised! Thou wilt be of all things else the most valued by such persons when death shall have surprised them. What will they not then be willing to give for one hour of so much lost time! But time will remain no longer for them when it is said to each one of them: ‘Go forth Christian soul out of this world, hasten to be gone, for now there is no time for thee.’ How will they then exclaim, lamenting, ‘Alas! I have squandered away my whole life; during so many years I might have become a saint; but how far am I from being such; and shall I become such, now that there is no more time for me?’ But to what purpose will such lamentation be, when the dying man is on the verge of that moment on which will depend eternity?" St. Alphonsus De Liguori

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