Puritan Meditations for the New Year.

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 Flavell
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 alone, and eternity is the reckoning.

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