No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

The only way to soften a hard heart. You can best counter the heart-hardening effect of sin by breaking it with God's hammer—His Word. "'Is not my word like fire,' declares the Lord, 'and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?'" (Jeremiah 23:29).