Quotes about Future

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

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

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

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

Faith] sees in the resurrection of Christ not the eternity of heaven, but the future of the very earth on which his cross stands. It sees in him the future of the very humanity for which he died. That is why it finds the cross the hope of the earth.

The planting is reserved for those who come after us and have the foresight to bring seed. I only clear the ground for them. Clearing ground an piling stones is little enough, but it is better than sitting in idleness.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.