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  • "Sinner" is a present-tense description of everyone, including those who have put their faith in Christ. Of course, those who have called Jesus "Lord" are justified, meaning that they are no longer guilty. Also, they have been given the Spirit, which makes them slaves to Christ rather than to sin. But we all are sinners. Perfection awaits eternity.

  • Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

    Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.
  • Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

    Prayer   Doe   Needs  
  • What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area.

  • Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

    Source: www.compulsivereader.com
  • In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

    Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.70, Editorial Renacimiento
  • Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

    Beautiful   Taken   Past  
  • The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a valuable one), and its music -- its special noise -- is always contemporary. The most valuable function of the theater as an art form is to tell us who we are, and the health of the theater is determined by how much of that we want to know.

    Art   Play   Special  
    Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.63, Da Capo Press
  • In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

    Memories   Past   People  
  • I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

    Doubt   Age   Tense  
  • Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

    Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics
  • I love you present tense.

    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.270, Penguin
  • Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

    Acting   Moments   Tense  
    "Director Tom Hooper Talks LES MISERABLES, Making the Decision to Have the Actors Sing Live, the Difficulty of Editing the Movie Down, an Extended Cut, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 29, 2012.
  • With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

    Focus   Instagram   Tense  
  • I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an option. You’re not dealing with a fact like one plus one equals two—I’m gonna choose to believe that. It’s kind of one of those things where you are choosing to believe that someone loves you. That is always going to be your choice. So for me, I think that’s what makes the faith that I have volatile and explosive and dangerous and troubling. That’s what most of my songs are about.

    Song   Believe   Love You  
  • The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

    Past   Fans   Tense  
    "Katt Williams: Scary, Crazy or Genius?". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. April 11, 2013.
  • Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

    Comfort   Vote   Moments  
    Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.37, Regnery Publishing
  • Confidence is the present tense of hope.

  • You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

    Jobs   Book   Reading  
    Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”
  • When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

    Tense   Feels   Happened  
    "Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy - review" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2013.
  • I love you present tense,” I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, “It’s okay, Gus. It’s okay. It is. It’s okay, you hear me?” I had—and have—absolutely no confidence that he could hear me. I leaned forward and kissed his cheek. “Okay,” I said. “Okay.

    Love You   Hands   Gus  
    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.270, Penguin
  • It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.

    Careers   Lag   Want  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the future that we can only imagine. These places have teachers who are living and dead and we are lucky to have them. If I sit here and read Aristotle, he is speaking to me across a thousand years - more than a thousand years. That sense that I am in the company of the great greatest people who ever lived is a humbling experience but a liberating experience.

    Teacher   Past   Years  
  • For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief - how could they ever be other than what they are?

  • I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

    Song   Regret   Past  
    "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, 1996.
  • To be honest, we live in an exciting time where form is concerned. My sincerest hope is that more people will notice this and agree to play and invent - the only way to not succumb to the complacency and market-driven schlock of the present tense is to continually interrogate it from the inside out.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

    Literature   Kind   Speak  
    "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.
  • We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

    Strong   Past   Wrath  
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