If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.

Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

One thing is certain—He will never throw our past failures back in our faces.

If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out.

Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ.

let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

My self-confidence, love of wisdom, and desire to change the world were rooted in that brief period, when I climbed out of despair to rebirth.

Most of us fear that in growing old, we'll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it's the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history.

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

It is grace to not be paralyzed by regret. The cross teaches that you are not stuck, not cursed to pay forever for your past.

One of the most beautiful, hopeful, and encouraging gospel themes that courses its way through Scripture is the theme of fresh starts and new beginnings. Fresh starts and new beginnings are a hallmark of the rescuing, forgiving, restoring, and transforming power of God's grace.

adapting the past to speak to changing circumstances in the present.