Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by read more

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not read more

There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not see.

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing
cold, nor any briars there . read more

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing
cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of
Abraham.

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life read more

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
Each man, unknowing, great,
Should frame life so that at some future hour
Fact and his dreamings meet.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

Making all future fruits of all the pasts.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the read more

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.