{"id":8253,"date":"2016-08-16T23:49:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/oldage\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:49:47","slug":"oldage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/oldage\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD\nAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b><i>See also: Age; Ages of man<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Albert Camus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Old age isn\u2019t so bad when you consider the alternative.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Maurice Chevalier 1888\u20131972<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>You old people, don\u2019t think you are becoming better just because you are becoming deader.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Dr Manfred Gutzke<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In the evening of our lives we shall be examined in love.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John of the Cross<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Samuel Johnson<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Accept it, adjust to it, adorn it.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Guy King<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Grey hairs are a proof of age, but not of wisdom.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Menander<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Savior.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Newton, aged 82<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>What you and I become in the end will be just more and more of what we are deciding and trying to be right now.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Powell<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>We fool ourselves. We pray for a long life, and fear old age.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Chinese proverb<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>[During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the China Inland Mission was suffering great losses, and every telegram brought more tragic news of Christians being killed, property being confiscated, and workers scattered. The mission\u2019s founder, the elderly J. Hudson Taylor, was in Switzerland and under orders to rest because of ill health. His heart ached for his coworkers in China. When things were at their worst, he said,] \u201cI cannot read; I cannot think; I cannot even pray; but I can trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Hudson Taylor<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Samuel Ullman<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: Age; Ages of man Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Author unknown To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion. Albert Camus Old age isn\u2019t so bad when you consider the alternative. 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