Sins Of The Past Quotes

• Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.641, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Sin, Remission

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• An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Past, America, Looks

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.

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• When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Past, Grace

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.73, Multnomah

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• I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Couple, Beer, Past

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• Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Past, Practice, Goal

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