Quotes About Renewal

There is no reason any Christians should be dry and weary, and not feel Jesus within himself. God never intended it to this way.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

It is now clear that we have hung on to too much for too long.

Si usted desea ser transformado, si quiere ser más semejante a Jesucristo, disciplínese para leer la Biblia.

the first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man.

Persevere en la adoración. Clame a Dios pidiéndole que le dé un conocimiento renovado de los «ríos de agua viva» (en referencia al Espíritu Santo) que en Juan 7:38 Jesús prometió que brotarían en todo el que creyera en él. Pero no deje de adorar; nunca se dé por vencido en el desierto. Usted no sabe qué tan amplio es, y podría estar a punto de terminar de atravesarlo.

La solución bíblica, simple y permanente Entonces, ¿cuál es la solución simple a la rutina aburrida de decir siempre las mismas cosas acerca de lo mismo de siempre? Aquí está: Cuando ores, ora a través de un pasaje de las Escrituras, de manera particular a través de un salmo.

That's when Kat realized that "I had let go of my pain, my story of loss, my victimhood, the grief and fear and sense of failure and shame and guilt from so much abandonment. I had to say good-bye to all the negative emotions that I had embodied over the years. Because when I let go, I was greeted by a new, deeper layer of wholeness, a sense of inner freedom.

For all Christians, baptism embodies release from yesterday's sin and receipt of tomorrow's promise: going under the water, the old self is buried in the death of Christ; rising from the water the self is new, joined to the resurrected Christ.

No, I have slept enough, and I like looking outside. It makes me hopeful. There is nothing like God's sunshine to cheer you up.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

If you believe in the mission of Jesus Christ, then you're bound to try to let go of your past, in the sense that you are entitled to his forgiveness. To keep regretting what was is to deny God's grace.

Pick yourself up,Dust yourself off,Start all over again.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

She'd once told me that I was probably the only person on earth who'd be given more than one soapbox in their lifetime because their first one had been worn out.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

the most successful long-term relationships are the ones with enough flexibility to redefine themselves over and over again through the years.

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

About 98% of the atoms in the human body are renewed each year. This surprising fact is discussed by Dr. Paul C. Aebersold of Oak Ridge in the latest Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Aebersold based his conclusion on experiments with radioisotopes, which trace the movements of chemical elements in and out of the body.

You reset the universe from the point of the change onward.

The need for sleep could be a terrible burden, but she was glad sleep existed. If it didn't, one would never get any real downtime. This way, no matter what happened the night before, you could wake up and feel like you had a new lease on life, a clean slate, that a chapter had ended and a new one had begun.