1 Timothy 5:1 (NIV) Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers.
1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV) Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."—George Santayana, Leadership, Vol. 5, no. 1.
Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "WEEPING".
