Quotes about Future

What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written, but which you shall presently make as enviable and renowned as any.

God has his hands on the earth. He will not let go—even when it requires that his hands be pierced by nails. Both his incarnation and those nails secured him to Earth and its eternal future. In a redemptive work far larger than most imagine, Christ bought and paid for our future and the earth's. A

Christ's resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth's.

No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of grateful joy changes the present.

Faith is like a forward memory, allowing us to believe as if what is promised has already happened.

Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead.

A knowledge and appreciation of history is difficult for a culture so enthralled by the moment, a culture that shuns the discipline of a larger context in any study. Unfortunately this loss of historical interest has made the present difficult to address because the context of the past is imperative if we are to salvage the future.

But it was not to be.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18,19

The best thing you can do about yesterday is to forget it. Whether you succeeded or failed, it's over. It's time to look ahead.