One of the curses of historyis that we cannot go back and change the course leadingto disasters, no matter how much we might wish to.The past has its own terrible inevitability.But it is never too late to change the future.
We are not as time-bound as we might think: since prayer gives us access to a trans-temporal God, prayer lifts us out of our temporal existence and enables us to participate in God’s trans-temporal existence. Einstein’s remark that "the distinction between past,...
We, of the majority caste, are largely innocents. By "innocent" I mean clueless about the way history has privileged some and impoverished others. If we are to move toward a future beyond the fatal consequence of our transgressions, we must lose our innocence. We have...
When you haven't forgiven those who hurt you, you turn your back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.
You can't make yourself feel bad enough about the past to change it. Ultimately, self-loathing is as narcissistic as self-torture is wasteful. The fact is, those distracting pursuits help no one…not those injured by your mistakes nor you who made them. There is a...
In my present season of grief and regret, I am finding that there is no way through apart from gratitude, and that, in fact, thankfulness is my greatest help. Not a plaster of it applied on the wound, not some anesthetic thanks to numb or replace the sadness, but...
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
To love, my brothers and sisters, does not mean we have to agree. But maybe agreeing to love is the greatest agreement. And the only one that ultimately matters, because it makes a future possible. from Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
If the Gospels were written now, we'd know more about the women in them, yet if in the kingdom of heaven the last are first, and if the kingdom is in part now, conversion involves readiness to hear more from and about women, and in the future surely almost all voices...
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.