bible and theology on past, present and future

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Christ came to earth in the past, but Christ comes to us now in prayer and sacrament and human need, and he will come again at the end of the world.

Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between the past, present, and future ultimately meaningless: to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that s...

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.