Sermon quotes on the Past
Augustine of Hippo (Attributed)
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Phillips Brooks
The only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
Miguel de Cervantes
“… truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”
Don Quixote
William Faulkner
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Requiem for a Nun
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? … It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.”
The House of the Seven Gables
Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
C. Sreechinth, Musings of Carl Jung (Roosevelt, UT: UB Tech, 2018), 41.
Søren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Stephen King
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
Joyland
Anne Lamott
..the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
C.S. Lewis
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
The Screwtape Letters
George Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
William Shakespeare
“What’s past is prologue.”
The Tempest
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn
“No, don’t! Don’t dig up the past! Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye.” But the proverb goes on to say: “forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.”
The Gulag Archipelago
Source Unknown
It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday.