Puritan meditations for the new year

(Be sure to LISTEN to the Audio, as you READ the text below.)

Thomas Watson: "Time is very short, and eternity is very long."

 

Stephen Charnock: "Time past cannot be recalled, time present cannot be detained, time to come cannot be secured."

 

William Gurnall: "Our time on earth is but a vapor, but it is long enough to glorify God if rightly improved."

 

John Flavel: "Each year is a leaf turned in the book of life, and God reads every line."

 

Richard Baxter: "We should enter upon every new year, as those who may not see the end of it."

 

Thomas Brooks: "Time is the seed of eternity. What we sow in days, we reap forever."

 

Charles Spurgeon: "Begin the year with God, walk through it with God, and end it for God."

 

Thomas Brooks: "This new year will leave us either closer to Heaven, or closer to Hell."

 

John Owen: "Time once lost, can never be recovered again."

 

William Gurnall: "Time is most precious, because eternity depends upon it."

 

Thomas Brooks: "A year spent without God, is a year spent against Him."

 

Richard Baxter: "We ought to begin every year, as those who stand upon the brink of eternity!"

 

Charles Spurgeon: "Time is a loan, and eternity is the reckoning!"

 

Charles Spurgeon: "Begin the year with prayer, continue it with obedience, and close it with praise."

 

"It is appointed for men to die once, and after this comes judgment!" Hebrews 9:27

 

We have published Grace Gems for NOVEMBER 2025 in one file

 

We thank and praise the Spirit of grace, who gives both seed to the sower and bread to the eater, for providing our daily spiritual nourishment this past year.