Time

"Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past."

"How my adventures become your sins?"

"She cannot: but must do it by distance of time."

"Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once."

"As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once."

"Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?"

"I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first."

"Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?"

"Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people."

"As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?"

"O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?"

"Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know."

"Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?"

"Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more."

"After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding."

"An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more."

"To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things."

"At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper."

"One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No."

"Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-"