It is a crime to permit our fires to burn low while experience yields us more and more
abundant fuel. AM191
From the altar of age the flashes of the fire of youth are gone, but the more real flame
of earnest feeling remains. ME556
As we grow older, it is wise to concentrate more and more our energies upon the one
thing, the only thing worth living for—the praise of God. 998.368
As Barzillai in his old age prayed David to accept the personal service of his son
Chimham, so would we, when our own strength declines, present our offspring to the
Lord, that they may supply our lack of service. 1148.712
O you of forty, fifty, or sixty, what a world of mischief there is in you that will have to
come out. 1248.455
Many of God’s aged servants who have been spared to advanced years, have come to
look out for the setting of earth’s sun without a fear of darkness. While they have
seemed to have one foot in the grave, they have really had one foot in heaven. 1922.537
Well, dear friend, if you want to get old, the surest way is to get old. I mean this.
Think that you cannot do what you used to do, and give up your religious engagements because you are getting old; give up preaching because you are so old;
give up the Sunday-school because you are so old; and you will be old fast enough:
that is the sure way to make yourself old. 2303.173
Old men sometimes arrive at a second childhood. Do not be afraid, brother, if that is
your case; you have gone through one period already that was more infantile than
your second one can be, you will not be weaker then than you were at first. 2457.137
In the case of some old people, who have been professors of religion for years, but who
have done next to nothing for Christ, I find it very difficult ever to stir them up at all. 2618.183
People are continually warning young men of their danger. No doubt we are in
danger; but let me remind you that there is not an instance in Sacred Scripture of a
young man disgracing his profession; but there are instances in Scripture of men of
middle age and of grey hairs doing so. 2700.532
I always find that the older saints become more Calvinistic as they ripen in age; that
is to say, they get to believe more and more that salvation is all of grace; and
whereas, at first, they might have had some rather loose ideas concerning free-will,
and the power of the creature, the lapse of years and fuller experience gradually blow
all that kind of chaff away. 2991.287
When somebody said to a Christian minister, “I suppose you are on the wrong side of
fifty?” “No,” he said, “thank God, I am on the right side of fifty, for I am sixty, and am
therefore nearer heaven.” Old age should never be looked upon with dismay by us; it
should be our joy. 3183.72
Though with the teaching of the Holy Spirit every year’s experience will make the
Christian riper, yet without that teaching it is possible that each year may make a
man, not more ripe, but more rotten. 3283.1
Temptation, instead of getting weaker with our age, gets stronger; the passions
which we thought would expire when the heat of youth had evaporated, become more
fierce as we grow more infirm, till some lusts are more rampant in those who have
the least power to gratify them. 3462.273
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