life on planet earth on past, present and future

In many parts of the country, leaf clean-up is an annual chore. They fall from the trees, blanket our lawns, and we often bag them up and toss them out (or burn them). There’s a lesson in this… In my...

Trust no future, howe’er pleasant!  Let the dead Past bury its dead!  Act,—act in the living present!  Heart within, and God o’erhead!

..the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

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

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

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

I was regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly God was speaking: "My name is I am." I waited and God continued: "When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it...

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...

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

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.