Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.