Time Peace Quotes

“Martha had started with the right goal. She wanted to serve Jesus. But she lost sight of how to do that. She turned the objective into making the meal rather than pleasing the Master. Barreling toward her own outcome, she got frustrated by how much there was to be done in so little time. In the process, she forgot who Jesus was, yelling at Him and treating Him like a means to her end. It’s so easy to be like Martha, particularly in today’s high-achieving culture. Even when we want to serve Jesus, we can end up blown off track, distracted by the means rather than keeping the end goal before us.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God

“Being a good steward of time doesn’t start with managing it better. It doesn’t begin with being more organized, efficient, and disciplined. These are great virtues. But one can be the most organized person on the planet and still have a heart as cold as steel, locked tight as a heavy file cabinet, a heart that does not really acknowledge the master’s rights to all those files.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God

“But discoveries about the natural world reveal some of God’s invisible qualities . . . His eternal power and divine nature, so different from ours. Exploring the starry fields of His creation causes us to live on the edge of wonder. It scratches at a deep-down, curious itch. It assuages the sadness we sense when time slips so quickly away. It acknowledges the longing for eternity that is planted deep within our hearts. It makes us hungry for heaven in a way that helps us live better on earth.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God

“When Christ’s Cross is big in our mind’s eye, our gratitude is big as well. In that mindset, being God’s steward is not dull duty, but grateful obedience. We are Christ’s glad bond slaves, like Paul, wild and full of joy, pressing on to use all we’ve been given — including our time — in the Master’s service, and for His glory. After all, we know that He will come back any day now — and then time as we know it will be no more.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God

“Healing unhealthy relationships with created things is not a management issue. It’s a heart issue, a question of just where our highest allegiances lie.”
― Ellen Vaughn, Time Peace: Living Here and Now with a Timeless God