SO GOOD QUOTES

169. SPARE TIME

The one who knows the value of time would use it for his benefit. This person would never have spare time, because his time will never be enough for the responsibilities that he has.

The one with spare time must have empty space in his life that has not been filled yet. Having emptiness in life, in aim or in ambition is really a sad matter!

Therefore, those with great endeavours never have spare time.

Those with ambitions in life. either spiritual or academic or even materialistic would have no spare time.

Spare time is the result of man’s failure to know how to use his time. Once he does, this problem would not be there any more.

The problem of spare time could face the old or those who reached the retiring age and thought that their message in life has ended. Their life became without job and without aim!

Those people need to search for a job so their world does not become boring and a burden on them.

The spiritual concept of using the spare time is not to look for a way to pass time! It is looking for a way to benefit from time.

Time is a part of life and it is unlawful to kill it or waste it uselessly.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. IV