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Quotes about Preceding

Not lost, but gone before.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment
— Thomas Jefferson
The underlying idea is none other than that the times preceding the parousia require a unique concentration of the minds of believers upon the Lord and the manner in which they may best please Him.
— Geerhardus Vos
A precedent embalms a principle.
— Benjamin Disraeli