A Quote by John Piper

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

John Piper

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John Piper
American - Priest
Born: January 11, 1946

You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.

Buck Brannaman

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.

James Van Praagh

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

E. Lynn Harris

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Jim Coleman

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

Guillermo del Toro

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I'm used to broken promises so I don't look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don't even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don't know how you're going to feel a week from now.

JaVale McGee

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Quentin Crisp

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Douglas MacArthur

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

Swami Vivekananda

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Robert Frost

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

Coleman Young

I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that's my job as a forward.

Luis Suarez

We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now.

M. William Phelps

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