Words Of Encouragement for the New Year

With the New Year always comes hope. What do you hope to change or do different in 2012? Here are some of my favorite quotes to serve as words of encouragement for 2012.

10 Great Words of Encouragement Quotes and Verses

Psalm 9:9 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are. –Max Lucado

Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Philippians 3:20-21 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles (Chuck) Swindoll

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colossians 3:12  Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

I choose kindness… I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me- Max Lucado

Numbers 23:19  God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

1 Corinthians 15:19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

I pray these words of encouragement were helpful to you today and that you take them with you in 2012!