87. OLD AGE
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Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing (Psa. 92:13,14).
1. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
2. I do not feel any age yet. There is no age to the spirit.
3. No wise man ever wished to be younger.
4. Blessed is the man or woman who so lives that they enjoy tarrying in the house of old age.
5. If wrinkles must be written upon your brow, let them not be written upon your heart. The spirit should not grow old.
6. To be busy and bald is no defeat,
Even grass doesn't grow on a busy street!
7. Growing old isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
8. It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.
9. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
10. A bald head is no disgrace if the baldness is confined to the outside.
11. Do you know how you know when you're getting old?--When you start living in the past.
12. To be years older and not be years nearer to God is like walking in a circle; it's motion without progress.
13. Some old people are well-preserved, others are just well-pickled.
14. You're only as old or as young as you feel!
15. The heart that loves is always young.
16. Keep your eyes on Jesus and you'll never get older than 33, because you'll have the life & the mind of Christ manifested in your mortal bodies.
17. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
18. We have a God who lives in Eternity and knows no age limit.
19. We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
20. The only way to remain young is to grow old gracefully. Each age has something beautiful in it. Don't fight the fact that you are getting old--use it.
21. Can you believe that God gave any man the gift of life intending the first half to be the best? What God begins He completes. God will finish what He has begun.
22. Age is a quality of mind--
If you have left your dreams behind,
If hope is lost,
If you no longer look ahead,
If your ambitions' fires are dead--
Then you are old.
But if from life you take the best
And if in life you keep the zest,
If love you hold--
No matter how the years go by,
No matter how the birthdays fly,
You are not old.
23. Neither fear old age nor fight it, but take hold of this stage of life and make something beautiful out of it.
24. For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress.
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
(See also No. 571, 680, 698, 714, 951, 1064, 1232.)
25. LEV.19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man and fear thy God: I am the Lord.
26. JOB 5:26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
27. JOB 11:17 Thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
28. JOB 12:12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
29. JOB 32:7 Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
30. PSA.92:13,14 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in the old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.
31. PSA.103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
32. PRO.23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
33. ISA.46:4 And even to your old age I am He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
34. TIT.2:2,3 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things.
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