“The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.” MenTodayPastForgetWiseHe ManMastersDifficultyOver The PastForget The PastVery Wise Author:Herbert Newton Casson
“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.” GivingLongDoeDoneHelpingRunningPastSinAnswersHellObjectsCostDifficultyAskingForgivingDoctrineOfferingLong RunsForgivenAlasMiraculousWipeFresh StartCalvaryAsking God Author:C. S. Lewis
“This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.” ThinkingMenStoriesEyePastColdDifficultyPoeticOne ManPessimismHidingVeilsCastingSlogansCold Eyes Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.” PeopleWritingHas BeensTodayPastHouseMemoriesMarriageStreetsCenturyFieldsDifficultyLipsChiefsAssociationEchoesEnglish Words Author:Virginia Woolf
“Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'” MindWholePastAsksTroubleDifficultyRegardEnduranceUnbearable Book:Meditations Source: Meditations