Redeem the Time

The following quote was emailed to me by my wonderful wife. I think she came across it on the girltalk blog.

"Let us 'redeem the time.' Desultory working, fitful planning, irregular reading, ill-assorted hours, perfunctory or unpunctual execution of business, hurry and bustle, loitering and unreadiness,--these, and such like, are the things which take out the whole pith and power from life, which hinder holiness, and which cat like a canker into our moral being."

- Nineteenth century Scottish pastor and poet, Horatius Bonar