PROCRASTINATION
Tomorrow is
the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your
intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be
done tomorrow.
J.C. Ryle
Thoughts for Young Men.
God has
promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to
your procrastination.
Augustine of Hippo
Procrastination
is the assassination of motivation
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Procrastination,
the thief of time, is one of the devil’s most potent weapons for defrauding us
of eternal heritage. The habit of “putting off” is fatal to spiritual
leadership. Its power resides in our natural reluctance to come to grips with
important decisions. Making decisions, and acting on them, always requires
moral energy. But the passing of time never makes action easier; quite the
opposite. Most decisions are more difficult a day later, and you may also lose
an advantage by such delay. The nettle will never be easier to grasp than now.
Oswald Sanders
Spiritual Leadership, Moody Publishers, 1967, p. 98.
No unwelcome
tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is
only when they are behind us and done, that we begin to find that there is a
sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties
unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant. Accomplished, they are full of
blessing, and there is a smile on their faces as they leave us. Undone, they
stand threatening and disturbing our tranquility, and hindering our communion
with God. If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink,
go straight up to it, and do it at once. The only way to get rid of it is to do
it.
Alexander
MacLaren
How soon “not
now” becomes “never.”
Martin Luther