49 Quotes About The Future

Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

The only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

It is foolish to move into the future on our own when God is waiting to guide us. His plan is the best. If we yield to Him, He can save us from Satan's snares.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.

We understand why in the Bible repentance precedes faith. Before people find their need -- love met in God, they are looking to other things, often money, for satisfaction. So believing in God has to involve a 180-degree turn away (that is, repentance) from the love of money to find contentment and confidence for the future simply in knowing God and depending on His promises.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

There are many who are uncertain about the future life and the existence of God, because they cannot see beyond this shell-like body of flesh, and their thoughts, like delicate wings, cannot carry them beyond the narrow confines of the brain. Their weak eyes cannot discover those eternal and unfading treasures which God has prepared for those who love Him.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

When we have struggles in this life, just knowing that God has a plan that is for our good can give us hope for the future.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

A pattern of wrong-minded thinking results in a life without joy, a family without peace, and a never ending quest for something beyond the mundane.

He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

We have to learn to commit not only the future but also the past to the Lord.

Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."

With the demonstration of the naturalness of the supernatural, skepticism even may come to be regarded as unscientific. And those who have wrestled long for a few bare truths to ennoble life and rest their souls in thinking of the future will not be left in doubt.

God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.

Live thoughtfully today and you won't have to live regretfully tomorrow.

Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The prospects are bright as the promises of God.

The prospects are bright as the promises of God.

The most vital concern for each of us is to have a joyful and fulfilled future... Whatever people hope for in the future, that is what they worship, and whatever people worship, that is what they inevitably serve.

I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

He knows where every, separate little heap of dust rests--the dust of a Peter and of a Paul,--all to be raised in a moment and made glorious bodies like unto His own. Then it will come out in a volume, the whole sum and substance of the gospel of the glory shut up in Him.

He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential.

I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness - my life was without past or future - but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.