Quotes About Past Sins

#1. I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Richard Rorty

#2. Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

Aldous Huxley

#3. not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come to us quickly, for we have become weak.

Anonymous

#4. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#5. Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.

Abdullah, Son Of Masud

#6. Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.

Maximus The Confessor

#7. That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#8. Assassination creates an instant hero of its target. Any past sins are not just forgiven but utterly forgotten.

Lesley Hazleton

#9. Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

T.D. Jakes

#10. Such eagerness to create space between present self and past sins obliges adults in the room to wonder whether callow youth has really wised up. "What

Kai Ashante Wilson

#11. Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. It was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly

Alice Schroeder

#13. The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.

Maxwell Maltz

#14. Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

Cesar Chavez

#15. If we really want "Racial Harmony" in this country, it is time we start judging individuals by the standards of their behaviors and by the criteria of the law, not by the pigmentation of their skin or the past sins or struggles of their forefathers.

Henry Johnson Jr

#16. And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way,

Greil Marcus

#17. To reconfess past sins would be to doubt the reality of God's forgiveness. God is not like us. When God forgives, it is once and for all - complete and permanent.

Redemptorists

#18. Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

Jane Smiley

#19. It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#20. But the past is in the past and that's where it'll stay, and in the past are the sins that were cast as far as the East is from the West, and there they will stay.

K. Weikel

#21. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Saint Augustine

#22. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

C.S. Lewis

#23. The same sins that tempted past generations remain perennial temptations today.

Anonymous

#24. Increasingly the individuals who want to live together are, or more precisely are becoming, the legislators of their own way of life, the judges of their own transgressions, the priests who absolve their own sins and the therapists who loosen the bonds of their own past.

Ulrich Beck Y Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

#25. What was I was dying for? The sins of the past? The wrongs of the present? Did it even matter?

Dana Michelle Burnett

#26. The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

Corey Taylor

#27. The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".

Herbert Butterfield

#28. Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

#29. To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

David Whyte

#30. Something's still wrong
the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.

Heather Day Gilbert

#31. I needed forgiveness, because there were lots of sins in my past. I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. I needed love, because I hated everybody. I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long.

John Grisham

#32. One should not forget the sins of their forebears, but nor can one advance by paying witness only to the failings of the past. To bury the past is to progress, and only in breaking the chains that bind can you escape the prison your predecessors have laid.

Scott Warren

#33. When in my present lonely lot, I feel my past has not been free From sins which I remember not, I dread more, what to come, may be.

Murasaki Shikibu

#34. You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Bruce Springsteen

#35. Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alphonsus Liguori

#36. In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

Robyn Davidson

#37. Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.

Dwight L. Moody

#38. All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

RuPaul

#39. The consequences of the past are always with us, and half the hostilities tearing the world apart could be resolved today were we to allow the forgiveness of sins to alter these consequences ... if we were to say of ourselves, 'The hostility stops here.

William Sloane Coffin

#40. When people confront the past - their sins, wounds, and curses - they experience amazing joy, freedom, and spiritual growth. They move from just the assurance of their salvation to an experience of divine deliverance.

Chris Hodges

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

Henry B. Eyring

#42. Sins of the past that I can't rectify alone. Sins I committed as an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. I need help and fast. I need someone off the books. Someone angry.

Nathan Edmondson

#43. 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

#44. No sinner is irreparable or irredeemable. No sin is so great that the blood of Jesus cannot cover it. His love is so deep and wide that he can, in one moment of our faith, forgive our past, present, and future sins. Sin is simply not a problem for God.

Judah Smith

#45. America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Khaled Hosseini

#46. 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

#47. Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.

Andrew Mayne

#48. Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

Franz Kafka

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

Joseph M. Juran