At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing radical transformation with the Affordable Care Act. Evolving thought and business models have little semblance to present mechanisms.
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.