Quotes About Future

The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.

Can we live now "as if " God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The prophets proclaim that history will be determined not by the past or present, but by the future.

It was no accident, I believe, that Jesus spoke his triumphant words, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, even as Roman soldiers were buckling on weapons for his arrest. He knew how to judge the present by the future.

Confieso que, a pesar de las largas horas de estudio de los profetas, no tengo un entendimiento más claro de lo que sucederá el año próximo ni en el año 2025. Pero tengo una idea mucho más clara de lo que Dios desea lograr en mi vida ahora mismo. Y estoy ganando, gradualmente, confianza para creer en el presente lo que solo será totalmente entendible cuando se vea desde el futuro.

Apart from forgiveness, the monstrous past may awake at any time from hibernation to devour the present. And also the future.

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

I will make my own future, not predict it. I don't need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen. I throw the gold charm which is like a wedding ring up in the air and catch it before it falls. This is my choice. I don't need magic to reveal my desire. The enchantment is already done: I am in love; I am sworn to a man of earth; I am not going to give this man up. All I have to do is consider how we can stay together.

I cannot know what the future will bring us," he says in a rapid undertone. "I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling you—without telling you at least once—that I love you.

Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it.

But this world is changing. Perhaps by the time you are old enough to marry the world will hear a woman's voice. Perhaps she will not have to swear to obey in her wedding vows. Perhaps one day a woman will be allowed to both love and think.

never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so

your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children's future with your answers.

Whatever was to happen eventually, she was slipping for now into the state of timelessness, when the past was one small circle of all events both recent and long ago, the empty future seemed suspended forever, and the present was an all-encompassing blanket floating in nothingness.

Oublier que la terre est la seule garantie de notre vie et de notre survie condamne tous nos efforts et toutes nos prouesses technologiques à n'avoir aucun lendemain.

What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to our earth.

Quelle planète laisserons-nous à nos enfants, et quels enfants laisserons-nous à la planète. What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to earth.

We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love. That, it seems to me, is the distillation of The Phenomenon of Man.

In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.

It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as America knows how to develop the sense of the earth at the same time as her sense of liberty. [Written from Peking, October 1945, on the eve of departure, after having been stuck there since the war began.]

El pasado me ha revelado la estructura del futuro

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

Neither, if we mean our future guardians to regard the habit of quarrelling among themselves as of all things the basest, should any word be said to them of the wars in heaven, and of the plots and fightings of the gods against one another, for they are not true.