If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The present is always traveling from the past to the future.
God is in man. He either is or he is not. But his complete absence is a big step back and down. In the future, people will come to him. Not to the priest, of course, and not to a parish. But to the divine in oneself. To the beautiful. To the immortal. And then there will be no depressing gray boredom, brutal, dull and boring, joyless everyday life.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Even toil will be a joy.
You may deny yourself bread for your children, and even that will be a joy.
They will love you for it afterward.
So, you are laying by for your future.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
—Thomas Jefferson
The earth is not the property of one man or even an entire generation, but of all past, present and future generations who work on it.
—Leo Tolstoy
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
—Stephen Hawking
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
—George Orwell
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
—Stephen Hawking
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
—Georg Hegel
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
—George Washington
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
—Plato
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
—Seneca
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
—Charles Darwin
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson
I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I’ll be able to endure it.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
—Thomas Edison
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
—Seneca
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
—Marcus Aurelius
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
—Marcus Aurelius
If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
My confidence in the future rests in my confidence in the God who controls history.
R.C. Sproul
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology – His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good – you can leave His ethical teaching intact.
—J. Gresham Machen
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
—George Washington