Every Saint Has a Past. Every Sinner Has a Future. So what choices of forgiven acceptance are you making in the moment of the now?
The source of the phrase ‘Every Saint Has a Past Every Sinner Has a Future’ comes from Oscar Wilde’s play A Woman of No Importance.
It is spoken by Lord Illingworth, a self-serving, pleasure-seeking, and dishonorable man. In the context of the play, Illingworth thinks that saints are fools for giving up self-centered lives of pleasure, while sinners still have much more pleasure to come. Source
So let’s be ‘sinners’ and do whatever we like, and to hell with the consequences.
But there is another way of looking at this phrase.
It’s about owning our past and choosing in the moment of the now to define our future.
I have a little coffee coaster on my desk. It’s solid glass, and underneath, you can place a picture.
Through the glass, I see the words …
My past does not define me. It is the decisions and choices I make today
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