Quotes for New Year & New Beginnings
Christian quotes for New Year & New Beginnings — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
By gentle powers wonderfully sheltered, we quietly await what e'er may come. God is with us at evening and in morning, and most assuredly on each new day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
My past no longer concerns me. It belongs to God's mercy. My future does not yet concern me. It belongs to divine providence. What concerns me, and what claims me, is today - it belongs to God's grace and to the surrender of my heart, my good will.
Francis de Sales
For all that has been - Thanks. For all that will be - Yes.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie ten Boom
The man who drives the plow looks neither back nor into immeasurable distances, but at the next step he must take; looking back is not a Christian thing. Leave fear, sorrow, and guilt behind. But look to the one who has given you a new beginning.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where would we end up // if everyone said // where would we end up // and no one went // to see for once // where one would end up // if one went.
Kurt Marti
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
The past should be a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back.
Warren Wiersbe
As surely as a person believes, so surely does he hope. And it is no disgrace to hope, to hope without limit.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May God lead us kindly through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been.
Oswald Chambers
By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered, and confidently waiting, come what may, we know that God is with us night and morning, and will be with us each intent new day. Still the past year torments our hearts, still the heavy burden of evil days presses upon us; ah Lord, grant our frightened souls the salvation for which you created us. And should you offer us the heavy cup, the bitter one of suffering, filled to its highest brim, then we will receive it thankfully without trembling from your good and beloved hand. But if you wish to grant us joy once more in this world and the radiance of its sun, then we will remember the past, and then our life belongs entirely to you.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The future is as bright as the promises of God.
Adoniram Judson
Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.
William Carey
Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.
D.L. Moody
God knows your yesterday, give him your today — he will care for your tomorrow.
Ernst Modersohn
No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.
William Borden
When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again.
Mother Teresa
Every new morning is a new beginning of our life. Every day is a self-contained whole.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are the times: such as we are, so are the times.
Augustine of Hippo
In gratitude I gain the right relationship to my past.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
T.S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S. Eliot
The only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
Phillips Brooks
Not lost is the time lived with God. Years sown by him grow into eternity.
Manfred Siebald
We do not know what the future holds, but we know the one who is the same - yesterday, today, and forever.
Hudson Taylor
Say yes to my deeds, help counsel the best yourself; the beginning, middle and end, ah Lord, turn toward the best.
Paul Gerhardt
Every year one lament less and one song of praise more!
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
The uncertainties of this time are the raw material for our faith. God holds the whole world in His hand.
Corrie ten Boom
The new year will not be a year without fear, guilt, and hardship. But that in all fear, hardship, and guilt it be a year with God, that our beginning with Christ be followed by a history with Christ, which is nothing but a daily beginning with him — that is what matters.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We may confidently set out even into a dark future, because the promise has no end.
Helmut Thielicke
There are two great certainties about the things that shall come to pass: one is that God knows, and the other is that we do not know.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us over stony ground, He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us on any journey without equipping us well.
Alexander MacLaren
Leave the broken, irreversible past in God’s hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
Unknown
You cannot go with God and stay where you are.
Henry Blackaby
People quoted here
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Francis de Sales, Dag Hammarskjöld, Corrie ten Boom, Kurt Marti, T.S. Eliot, Warren Wiersbe, Oswald Chambers, Martin Luther King Jr., Adoniram Judson, William Carey
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