Our Past Quotes - Page 20

• And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

  Max Lucado

  God, Courage, Honesty

  Max Lucado (2011). “The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life”, p.111, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Jesus, Eye, Heart

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Past, Self, Sorrow

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.415, 谷月社

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• With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Children, Past, Parent

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• You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Past, Broken

  Twitter post from May 30, 2015

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• Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

  Dean Karnazes

  Past, Self, Awakening

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• The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Pages, Tomorrow

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

  Tyler Perry

  Past, Use, Something Better

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• When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Past, Born Again, Your Past

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  King Hussein I

  Truth, Mistake, Dark

  "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.

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• When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

  Nora Ephron

  Past, Reality, Infidelity

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.64, Vintage

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• The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science.

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Past, Years

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• If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid

  Lil Wayne

  Past, Hours, Time Is Money

  Song: Blunt Blowin', Album: Tha Carter IV, 2011

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• Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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• How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Important, Your Future

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 30, 2013

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• I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

  Bob Harper

  Believe, Moving, Past

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• Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Confidence, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 08, 2013

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• We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

  David Oyelowo

  Past, Deny, Empowered

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• You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.

  Mark Schaefer

  Past, Accomplishment, Your Past

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• You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world: it behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your past conduct; to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer.

  Thomas McKean

  Prayer, Passion, Past

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• If you don't let your past die, then it won't let you live.  Period.

  Perry Noble

  Past, Periods, Dies

  FaceBook post by Perry Noble from Sep 22, 2012

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• From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

  Jane Hamilton

  Memories, Believe, Past

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• Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Past, Bed

  Alexander Smith, Peter Pauper Press (1947). “Dreamthorp: eight essays”

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• Changing your life means changing your past.

  Neville Goddard

  Mean, Past, Changing Your Life

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• People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of the other way around. Choices are hard - that's why so few actually make them. But as the saying goes - not to make a choice is to make a choice. When it comes to choices, The question is - what choices will you make today? The world doesn't care about your problems, or what's holding you back. They don't care about your past failures, or any other obstacles you face. Stop making excuses and start making choices.

  Phil Cooke

  Past, People, Choices

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