The time before was slow, as much as I grow as much the time don't forgive. As most people will say if you fuck the past, the past fucks you!

— Deyth Banger

Thus, she returned to the theme of ‘before,’ but in a different way than she had at first. She said that we didn’t know anything, either as children or now, that we were therefore not in a position to understand anything, that everything in the neighborhood, every stone or piece of wood, everything, anything you could name, was already there before us, but we had grown up without realizing it, without ever even thinking about it. Not just us. Her father pretended that there had been nothing before. Her mother did the same, my mother, my father, even RINO… <…> They didn’t know anything, they wouldn’t talk about anything. Not Fascism, not the king. No injustice, no oppression, no exploitation … And they thought that what had happened before was past and, in order to live quietly, they placed a stone on top of it, and so, without knowing it, they continued it, they were immersed in the things of before, and we kept them inside us, too.

— Elena Ferrante

Thus, we knew at the onset of the sexual revolution back in 1968 that this day of disease and promiscuity would come. It is here, and what we do with our situation will determine how much we and our children will suffer in the future. God created the moral basis for the universe before He made the heavens and the earth. His concept of right and wrong was not an afterthought that came along with the Ten Commandments. No, it was an expression of God’s divine nature and was in force before “the beginning.

— James C. Dobson

We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means

— Sunday Adelaja

We are responsible for our country before God

— Sunday Adelaja

Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.

— James C. Dobson

Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner. Anything less is foolhardy and potentially suicidal. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is no such thing as "safe sex," just as there is no "safe sin." For thousands of years, people have been trying to find ways to disobey the laws of God without suffering the consequences. It can't be done. Scripture tells us that the wages of sin is death, and we'd better believe it!

— James C. Dobson

We, too, can repair our cracks with gold And glow again. Crazed by life, More beautiful than ever before.

— Scott Hastie

What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.

— Craig Groeschel