Quotes about Past

Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present. Salvation

that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

The explanation of the blindness [in John 9] lies not in the past causes but the future purposes.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.