Quotes about Past

Are we going to answer God's call for this church to make a significant impact in this new millennium, or will we rest on past success?

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need.

You can live under the weight of your past or the weight of forgiveness. If you choose the former, you'll constantly be working off the guilt like someone who overeats at the holidays.

we can't use someone else's irresponsibility in the past as an excuse for our irresponsibility in the present. If

WHENEVER we review the events of our lives apart from the blood of Jesus, we subject ourselves to the influence of the spirit of deception. In reality, my sinful past no longer exists. The Lamb of God purchased it with a payment in blood, forever removing my sins from the records of Heaven. The atoning blood of Jesus covers my sin, never to be uncovered again. Sin's power to destroy us is itself destroyed by a superior reality: forgiveness.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.