Time Can Be
- May 11, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
Life
Money
Short
Change
Seasons
What matters
Eternity begun
Transformation
A great teacher
A precious gift
The king of men
A blooming field
A valuable wealth
Our total capital
Our present breath
Power for our work
What the clock says
The great art of man
The life of the soul
Clay - make something
How we spend our love
Not a road but a room
Our greatest resource
The mercy of eternity
The scarcest resource
A perishable commodity
The greatest innovator
The soul of this world
The capital of our life
The least thing we have
What life is made up of
Long days and short years
The backdrop of our lives
The stuff life is made of
The supreme law of nature
The truest form of wealth
Round, and it rolls quickly
Too slow for those who wait
The school in which we learn
The wisest counsellor of all
Too swift for those who fear
What turns kittens into cats
All that really belongs to us
The stream we go a-fishing in
The wisest of all counsellors
A herb that cures all diseases
The fairest and toughest judge
Not a thing that’s ours to lose
Just memory mixed in with desire
Our friend, impulse is our enemy
The best kept secret of the rich
A currency we can only spend once
A series of fluctuating variables
The measure of that which changes
The nurse and breeder of all good
An ocean, but it ends at the shore
Neutral and does not change things
That in which all things pass away
The speed at which the past decays
The substance of which we are made
The best preserver of righteous men
That which is manufactured by clocks
The most precious of our possessions
The most valuable thing we can spend
What stops history happening at once
What the depressed and panicked lack
Not a line, but a series of now-points
The clarity for seeing right and wrong
The speed at which the past disappears
The longest distance between two places
What we want most, but what we use worst
A great manager - it arranges things well
The explicable raw material of everything
The lens through which dreams are captured
The sea in which we grow, are born, or die
The old justice that examines all offenders
The most precious element of human existence
The one thing in which it is right to be stingy
What prevents everything from happening at once
The unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life
Part of today, not simply a measure of its passing
A brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new
The sole resource we gain if spent and waste if not
Not a thing that passes, but a sea on which we float
Like the wind - it lifts the light and leaves the heavy
Change - we measure its passage by how much things alter
The missing ingredient in our recipes - and in our lives
The one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure
Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
Our best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence
A stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know
All we have, and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it
Never wasted if we remember to bring along something to read
The turning over of days, working change for better or worse
Of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination
A resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand
Our most precious gift, because we only have a set amount of it
The measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after
The most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
Relative - its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing
All we have, and we may find one day that we have less than we think
The only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune
The wisest of all things that are, for it brings everything to light
Exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each of us on a daily basis
Like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go
Measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains
Redeemed when we make the most of our life by fulfilling God's purposes
The brush of God, as He paints His masterpiece on the heart of humanity
At once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions
Everything - five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat
The most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable
What we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is
The only capital that we have, and the only thing we can’t afford to lose
More value than money - we can get more money, but we cannot get more time
A very precious gift - so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment
Really the only capital that we have, and the only thing we can't afford to lose
Like a handful of sand - the tighter we grasp it, the faster it runs through our fingers
A seedfield - in youth we sow it with causes, in after life we reap the harvest of effects
The continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future