Possible Clues:

• Moments
• Flashes
• Snaps of the fingers
• Very brief periods of time
• 'Momentous, perhaps, examples, by the sound of them (8)'
• Brief seconds
• They're short of time
• This might sound like an example of moments
• Moments when saints are confused about part of Bible
• Times are short in 5 down, by the sound of it