Quotes About Future

We're not very good as a species at looking into the future. It's much easier to look back at the past. We can edit out the bits we don't like, reinvent ourselves. But there's nothing about the future we can edit or reinvent. Most people are prisoners of the future just as much as they are prisoners of their genes.

El evangelio no solo es un suceso; es una palabra fija, una verdad que permanece, una palabra fundamental para la vida, que contiene la promesa de las cosas venideras.

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.

Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”

When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:

No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.

You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and strike down all the sons of Sheth.

A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”