The Crucified and Risen Christ uses the mistakes of the past to create a positive future, a future of redemption instead of retribution. He does not eliminate or punish the mistakes. He uses them for transformative purposes.

Francis of Assisi was a master of making room for the new and letting go of that which was tired or empty.

So God, life, and destiny have to loosen the loyal soldier's grasp on your soul, which up to now has felt like the only "you" that you know and the only authority that there is. Our loyal solider normally begins to be discharged somewhere between the ages of thirty-five and fifty-five, if it happens at all; before that it is usually mere rebellion or iconoclasm.

If you don't walk into the seond half of your own life, it is you who does not want it.

we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

God's purpose is not limited by your past.

Many people are driven by guilt. They spend their entire lives running from regrets and hiding their shame. Guilt-driven people are manipulated by memories. They allow their past to control their future. They often unconsciously punish themselves by sabotaging their own success.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.