Wise Quotes on Aging
"The Better Dowry"
"The plan is that as the woman's first beauty wanes, a ripening comes that is the second beauty. It is by this that men may still love their wives, even as the bridal dowry of physical allure is exchanged, over time, for the better dowry of an inner glow."
Andree Seu
"Fruitless Trees In Late Autumn"
A hoary head should enclose a mind with wisdom, not lasciviousness. (“Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life”—Proverbs 16:31). God has ordained each age of man to have its peculiar beauty, just as celestial bodies differ in glory from terrestrial bodies (1 Corinthians 15:40). The youthful charms are fleeting (Proverbs 31:30), but the ripened counsel of maturity is a pearl of great price (Titus 2:2-8)...The anecdote in Mark 11 is a split one, the fig tree narrative interrupted by the recounting of Jesus’ visit to the temple, in which the expectation of finding his Father’s house to be a “house of prayer” is dashed by the spectacle of hustlers. Jesus overturns their tables—and later curses the fig tree. Jesus is not polite sometimes. White hair on a fool is false advertisement, like “waterless clouds” (Jude 1:12)...Let me flee the temptation to debase myself before youth, thinking to ingratiate myself with them. Children want to find godliness in the aged, whether they admit it or not. Even if a person does laugh at an unseemly joke in the moment, he thinks less of you afterward. Lord, since I have to get old anyway, please begin preparing me now, so that I will not be like “fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted” (Jude 1:12).
Andree Seu
"The plan is that as the woman's first beauty wanes, a ripening comes that is the second beauty. It is by this that men may still love their wives, even as the bridal dowry of physical allure is exchanged, over time, for the better dowry of an inner glow."
Andree Seu
"Fruitless Trees In Late Autumn"
A hoary head should enclose a mind with wisdom, not lasciviousness. (“Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life”—Proverbs 16:31). God has ordained each age of man to have its peculiar beauty, just as celestial bodies differ in glory from terrestrial bodies (1 Corinthians 15:40). The youthful charms are fleeting (Proverbs 31:30), but the ripened counsel of maturity is a pearl of great price (Titus 2:2-8)...The anecdote in Mark 11 is a split one, the fig tree narrative interrupted by the recounting of Jesus’ visit to the temple, in which the expectation of finding his Father’s house to be a “house of prayer” is dashed by the spectacle of hustlers. Jesus overturns their tables—and later curses the fig tree. Jesus is not polite sometimes. White hair on a fool is false advertisement, like “waterless clouds” (Jude 1:12)...Let me flee the temptation to debase myself before youth, thinking to ingratiate myself with them. Children want to find godliness in the aged, whether they admit it or not. Even if a person does laugh at an unseemly joke in the moment, he thinks less of you afterward. Lord, since I have to get old anyway, please begin preparing me now, so that I will not be like “fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted” (Jude 1:12).
Andree Seu