Rev. Leigh Goodwin
POWERFUL QUOTES
NEW YEAR
The month of January is named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings. He was symbolised as a man with two faces, one looking back and the other looking ahead. At the beginning of a New Year, some people have trouble looking ahead with hope because they keep looking back with dismay and regret over the past. – Phil. 3:13,14.
“Another year is dawning: Dear Father let it be,
in working or in waiting, another year with thee;
Another year of progress, another year of praise,
Another year of proving thy presence all the days;
Another year of mercies, of faithfulness and grace,
Another year of gladness in the shining of thy face;
Another year of leaning upon thy loving breast,
Another year of trusting, of quiet, happy rest;
Another year of service, of witness for thy love;
Another year of training for holier work above.
Another year is dawning : Dear Father let it be,
On earth or else in heaven, another year for thee.” (Frances Ridley Havergal – 1836-1879)
“I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year `Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied `Go out into the darkness & put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light & safer than a known way.'” (M.L.Hoskins – `God knows’)
“The new year is like a book with 365 pages, a great diary which we can, to a large extent, write for ourselves; but in which everything must be exactly written, whether we like it or not.” (Gilbert White)
“The man who succeeds is the one who has grit enough to get up every morning and put ditto marks under his New Year’s resolutions.” (Warren C. Dubois)
“Ring out the old, ring in the new. Ring out the false, ring in the true.” (Tennyson)
“What the New Year brings us depends a great deal on what we bring to the New Year.”
“The path into the New Year glows with opportunities to work for Christ.”
“Dear master, for this coming year, just one request I bring; I do not pray for happiness or any earthly thing. I do not ask to understand the way thou leadest me, but this I ask: Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth Thee. I want to know thy guiding voice, to talk with thee each day. Dear master make me swift to hear and ready to obey. And then the year I now begin, a happy year will be if I am seeking just to do the thing that pleaseth thee.”