No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
—Socrates
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
—Aristotle
In Him, not in our circumstances, is our peace. As of old, it is today. In Christ, in Colosse; in Christ, in hospital; in Christ, here.
—Amy Carmichael
We know that the temptation to fear is a very old one; millions of people have had it. But they have conquered, and so will you, if you take our Saviour’s words of strength to yourself, and stay yourself on them.
—Amy Carmichael
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.
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
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
—Albert Einstein
I know that some of our knees are a bit old, but I still thought this interesting.
“Oftentimes, it helps us to a realization of the presence of God to read the Bible on our knees. The Bible became a new book to me when I took to reading it on my knees.”
—R. A. Torrey
The saints of the Old Testament are saved in Christ as much as you and I are, and all who will ever live must be saved in Christ or not at all.
—Martyn Lloyd Jones
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
—Cicero
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
—Mark Twain
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
—Henry David Thoreau
Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C.S. Lewis
War is young men dying and old men talking.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.
—Jonathan Edwards
Governments must be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance and the consent of men.
—John Locke
Forgiving doesn’t mean you have to repeat the same old mistakes.
—Peter R. Rose