Quotes about Past
Don't forget your history nor your destiny.
— Bob Marley
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Plans let past drives the future.
— Jason Fried
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a decent fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal.
— Edith Wharton
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
— Edith Wharton
In history, a great volume is unravelled for our instruction, drawing materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
— Edmund Burke
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.
— Mother Angelica
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of memory, not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Forgiveness is to let go of our hope for a different or better past." It is what it is, and such acceptance leads to great freedom, as long as there is also accountability and healing in the process.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
This resistance to change is so common, in fact, that it is almost what we expect from religious people, who tend to love the past more than the future or the present.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The Crucified and Risen Christ uses the mistakes of the past to create a positive future, a future of redemption instead of retribution. He does not eliminate or punish the mistakes. He uses them for transformative purposes.
— Fr. Richard Rohr