Quotes About Past

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.

Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?