Pastoral Resources

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

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.