Break any ties—good or bad, emotional or spiritual—with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective.

How about this—let's not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we'll never get it right without him.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally important to Him.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.

Don't be bound by the past and its failures. But don't forget its lessons either.

You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.

The world I once knew as a boy has changed dramatically . . . I don't even recognize the world we live in today.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.