New Year’s Christian Quotes to Inspire You
Can you believe that another new year is upon us? If you long for a fresh start, let these new year’s Christian quotes speak hope into your life!
This past year has been filled with challenges for so many people.
Trials like health struggles, challenges with family members, and financial difficulties can leave us feeling weary, discouraged and overwhelmed.
It’s so easy to focus on our present circumstances instead of looking to God and His Word for inspiration.
I’m so thankful for the promise of new beginnings that we have through faith in Christ Jesus!
While we should view each day as a new opportunity, it makes perfect sense on New Year’s Day to consider our ways and ask God for wisdom.
It’s common for many people to make new year’s resolutions and set new goals. We may offer new year greetings to others while receiving best wishes for good health, good times and good things in the coming year.
However, as Christians we know that a truly blessed new year comes from a lot more than good luck.
The blessing of God only comes by faithfully following the will of God.
While a prosperous new year with material blessings may be a natural desire, our lives can only find lasting joy, happiness, and peace by committing our ways to the Lord.
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Best New Year’s Christian Quotes
In putting together this collection of new year’s Christian quotes, I wanted to include more than simple happy new year wishes.
A religious message that misses out on the true power of God provides no message of hope in a world full of despair and darkness.
Instead, I’ve included inspirational Bible verses and quotes from well-known Christian writers and teachers, all focused on new beginnings and the fresh start available through Jesus Christ.
Some of these are more famous quotes while others are not as well known.
But all of these quotes have the common goal of shining light on your path and bringing good cheer to your heart as you exit the previous year.
So as we pass from the old year to the new one, my prayer is that this list of the best Christian new year quotes will encourage you to not only be a better person but a more whole-hearted follower of God!
New Year’s Bible Verse Quotes
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Exodus 20:20
Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”
Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
2nd Chronicles 7:14
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Psalm 103:8-10
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Psalm 65:5
By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
Psalm 65:11
You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Isaiah 43:18-19
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
Jeremiah 21:11
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Psalm 40:3
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.
Daniel 10:9
And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”
Isaiah 48:6
“You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known.”
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Lamentations 3:22-24
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end. they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
John 16:33
“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:28
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Romans 15:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Philippians 4:19
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Peter 1:3-6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.
Revelation 21:5
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Christian Quotes for the New Year
These are some of the very best new year’s Christian quotes.
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” —Jonathan Edwards
“New Year’s Day is a good time to fix one’s eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.”—Elisabeth Elliot
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“The God who made us also can remake us.” —Woodrow Kroll
“Don’t you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!” —Charles Spurgeon
“Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.” —Alexander MacLaren
This year, let us ask God to dissolve all our hopes into a single hope: to know Christ and to be found in Him. May this be a year of desire radically transformed, a deeper, truer, knowing of Christ as our All-Sufficient One. —Elisabeth Elliot
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” ―Corrie ten Boom
“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.” ―J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer
“Just be obedient. Do today, faithfully, all that the Lord gives you to do. Then, the strength will be given for what’s coming. There is no need to go to pieces. Obey. Today.” —Elisabeth Elliot
“We’re most happy when we’re enjoying God and fulfilling His purpose for our life.” –Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” ―Deitrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
“The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.” —Adrian Rogers
“God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.” —Catherine Marshall
“What we do today is more important than what we plan to do in the future.” —Jack Hyles
“Faithfulness today is the best preparation for the demands of tomorrow.” —Elisabeth Elliot
“Let’s make one resolution this year: to anchor ourselves to God’s grace.” —Chuck Swindoll
“Our quitting point is God’s beginning point.” —Woodrow Kroll
“The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.“ —Joni Eareckson Tada
“All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose he has given them.” —Oswald Chambers
“The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.” —John Piper
“This one simple act of beginning each day with God sets each day on the path of wisdom.” –Elizabeth George
“Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God’s judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.” ―J.C. Ryle, Holiness
“Comebacks don’t seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God’s power to reverse the irreversible in your life. “ —Tony Evans
“Because we have been created by a good Creator, we can live with purpose. Because we are loved by a loving Father in heaven, we are free to grow and thrive.” –Peter Jones
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ―Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
“Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song – He has become your salvation.” —Charles Spurgeon
“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” —Oswald Chambers
“Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all… As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.” —G.K. Chesterton
“God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There are no ‘if’s’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it!” ―Corrie Ten Boom
“There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough–a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice–which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.” ―J.C. Ryle
“When our plans are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled. They include our minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable.” —Elisabeth Elliot
Closing Thoughts on Christian New Year Quotes
You may be reading these Christian new year’s quotes on New Year’s Eve or the first day of January.
As we go through the holiday season and finish up new year celebrations, some feel hopeful while others are weary and discouraged.
Either way, my new year’s prayer for you is that you will have not just a very happy new year but what is even better, a new start in God!
The beginning of a new year provides the perfect opportunity to look back and reflect, giving thanks for the blessings of last year.
But we can also look forward with hope and anticipation as we make God-centered new resolutions to stay on the right path this next year.
Each new day can be a chance to follow Jesus more closely. We can learn from Him and dwell in His grace.
Let the message of love found in these new year’s Christian quotes fill us with new hope and show us a better way to live this year!
Dear friend, may God’s grace and the power of the Holy Spirit be with you on New Year’s Day and every day of this upcoming year! May you have a very glad new year!
