aging on Appearances

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Max Lucado shares a funny story about a phone app that was supposed to be able to guess your age. It worked by taking a picture of a person’s face and then spitting out a supposedly accurate result. L...

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Fancy and humor, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

I love that part in The Silver Chair when old age simply vanishes from frail King Caspian, because age is the unavoidable meltdown, stripping even the bravest and most beautiful of their former glor...

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, tho’, in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Introduction Believed to be some of Paul’s last words of his long ministry, 2 Tim. 4:6ff are Paul’s closing remarks to his beloved disciple, Timothy. Imprisoned in Rome by this point, Paul concludes ...

When a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking younger, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

The three immutable facts: You own stuff. You will die. Someone will get that stuff.

Preaching Commentary Introduction Believed to be some of Paul’s last words of his long ministry, 2 Tim. 4:6ff are Paul’s closing remarks to his beloved disciple, Timothy. Imprisoned in Rome by this...

Time wounds all heels.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a ...

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

We bring before you, O Lord, the troubles and perils of people and nations, the sighing of prisoners and captives, the sorrows of the bereaved, the necessities of strangers, the helplessness of the we...

I love old homes. I’m always drawn to them. The character, the drama, the history. The possibility they possess in a different way than a new build does. Often when referring to older homes, people sa...

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different?

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us—and are not ours at the same time.

Do you remember the first time you started to feel your mortality? Or perhaps, the first time you realized their was something wrong with your body? Your mind? At some point (for me it was my twenties...

Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are no less than the pleasures of youth.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true wi...

It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.