Top 1200 Past And Present Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

Remembering the past gives power to the present.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

If you look to your past or even your present to see why you are here or what your purpose is, you may get stuck in a limited view of yourself. Instead, look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the divine, and bring forth your soul's legacy into the present moment.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

To God, all things are present; there is no past or future - it is all now.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.

Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

The past has no power over the present moment.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.