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

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

An elderly couple lies in bed. She is not satisfied with the distance between them. She reminds him, “When we were young, you used to hold my hand in bed.” He hesitates, but in a few moments a wrinkle...

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

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...

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

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 ...

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into autumn—the crickets s...

God of the Ages, Every day we come face to face with our mortality and the pain of this broken world Every day the need is great in body, mind, and spirit Every day brings disappointment  Every day b...

"To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all."

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...

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

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.

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

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...

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...

And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

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

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

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

We’ll be friends until we’re old and senile. Then we’ll be new friends.

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

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will you shield you from suffering, or He w...

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

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

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

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members...

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well.

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 ...