The crown of praise is old age.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Not law but gospel, not demand but promise is the center of revelation, even in the days of the old covenant, to which man’s part is to respond in faith and in the walk of faith (Gen. 17:1), just as Paul in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 understood the revelation of God to Abraham.
—Herman Bavinck
We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.
“Before looking at new investments, we consider adding to old ones. If a business is attractive enough to buy once, it may well pay to repeat the process.”
I will in the evening read for half an hour at least the Old Testament, with which I am not well acquainted.
—William Wilberforce
“Get near to Jesus. An hour’s communion with Jesus is the best preparation for teaching either the young or the old.”
It is utterly impossible to make a man better without Christ, and that is what men are trying to do. They are trying to patch up this old Adam’s nature. There must be a new creation.
—D. L. Moody
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
—Socrates
Every ceremony is fulfilled in Christ. Sunday is the day of resurrection.
Under the Old Testament the pattern was first work, then rest– that is, the worship of God.
—Herman Bavinck
“There he lies silently in the tomb.
He, who is to bruise the old serpent’s’ head, is himself bruised.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“So that by virtue of our rising in Christ we have received life and have become the subjects of a wondrous change,— old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
—Henry Ford
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
—Franz Kafka
While everything in the Old Testament was in preparation for Christ, everything now stems from him. Christ is the turning point of time. The promise made to Abraham extends now out to all nations.
—Herman Bavinck
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
—Aldous Huxley
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
—Henry Ford
Money is a new form of slavery, distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that there’s no human relation between master and slave.
—Leo Tolstoy
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
—Michelangelo
New prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.
—Immanuel Kant
The good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better, than when in danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their sermon.
—George Whitefield
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age.
—Miyamoto Musashi
It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.
—Thomas Aquinas
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
—Aristotle
Today we do not feel quite sure of our new set of beliefs, and the old ones still exist within us.
—Sigmund Freud
Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
—Seneca
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
—William Shakespeare
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
—Plato