Quotes About Past

While the churches that focus on one locale and stay focused may report good outcomes, other churches may simply repeat the mistakes of North American missionaries of the past.

Perhaps "staying connected to history" challenges me because I am an American with an ingrained American worldview. We Americans tend to think mostly about the present or the future and very little about our connection to the past. I don't even know my great-grandfather's name. A friend in Lebanon can trace his lineage back to the Phoenicians in 300 B.c.!

There was a gate to this court, and past this gate was the entrance to the Tabernacle, past the first gate stood the altar of burnt offering and the laver of bronze.

People were asked to recall and rank those past decisions that they most regret.

I knew now that the end of the world was coming not from the future, but the past.

So look backward and look forward. God's grace enables you to do both, celebrating forgiveness for the past and embracing power for a new and better future. Only God's grace gifts you with peace with your past and hope for your future.

He covers your past with his grace; he protects, provides for, and empowers you in the present; and he holds every aspect of your future in his sovereign and gracious hands.

Hij zei: 'Filip, schep het verleden om vrij te zijn voor de toekomst. Trek je eigen karikatuur en je bent ervan af.' Hij antwoordde: 'Goed Filip, maar wat met de schuwe wezel van het schuldgevoel, het vlugge nooit voldane roofdier?

Met het verleden in mijn hand als een papiertje harlekijn, wanneer je aan het koordje trekt schieten armen en benen in beweging, je kan het ene niet stilleggen zonder het andere, op beklemmende wijze zit alles als een raderwerk met mekaar in verband.

Ik leef niet, ik zit hier en kijk, terwijl ik schrijf zie ik, ontdek ik wat ik tevoren niet wist, ik vind stukjes van een puzzel waaraan ik misschien mijn hele leven zal werken, nooit komt het legwerk klaar want het verleden wisselt voortdurend van gedaante volgens het heden (dat niets anders is dan de kop van dit verleden) en de toekomst (die morgen de kop van dit verleden zal zijn).

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

It would be ironic for an archaeologist to catch something nasty from the past, perhaps the ultimate in experimental archaeology!

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past. I

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.

party. I'm long gone from that scene.

I find myself combing the past these days, dreaming dreams without sleep, puzzling over my guys, the gay and the straight and the in-between. Somewhere in there is a horror of love, and to try to kill the beast in them, they take it out on us. Which is not to say I don't chastise myself for halving the world into us and them. I know that the good guys aren't all gay, or the bad all straight. That is what I am sifting for, to know what a man is finally, no matter the tribe or gender.

I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men, it remains and will remain alive in the memory of an infinite being for which the past as well as the future is always present, and that is thus the greatest, the only true historian, and the keeper of the eternal tradition of which even our best human traditions ...are but shadows and images.

So maybe it wasn't even true that I could choose to share in the world's future. It wasn't a matter of simple nostalgia. For a long time, for many people and certainly for me, the past had taken the future's place, as any hope or sense of forward progress had dried up and disappeared. But now, as I aged, more and more the past had taken over the present also, because the past was all we had.

el olvido no es lo mismo que la reconciliación y la memoria no es lo mismo que la venganza».

The past is the past. It's the present we should worry about.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must be banished.

He felt the Emperor's eyes on him, the intensity of the gaze, the weight of his expectations, and Vader knew that the day's events had been only half about depleting a rebel movement before it could grow. They had also, as Vader had suspected, been about testing him, forcing him to face the ghosts of his past and exorcise them forever and fully.