Quotes About Renewal

As the saying goes cut off the head of the snake another one grows in its place, so why cut off the head instead just throw the snake in a frying pan and eat the snake

Forget all the weird stuff. Forget all the bad things. Forget it all.

Thomas took off his nasty clothes and got to work making himself human again.

After washing himself from top to bottom at least five times, he felt reborn.

You can't step into the same River even once, And why would you want to? You can't

Exercise...because the soul isn't the only thing worth saving.

In the end, despite the large volume of bad news, we can conclude with an affirmation. We can say with Wallace Stevens that 'after the final no there comes a yes.' Yes, we can save what is left. Yes, we can repair and make amends. We can reclaim nature and restore ourselves. There is a bridge at the end of the world.

All of us need to leave things behind in order to follow God. For some of us, it is addictive patterns of behavior, for others an overweening emphasis on our own success, for others the adulation of the crowd. It helps sometimes to look not just at what we're leaving behind and what God promises us, but also at what God has shown us already. Just look at all those fish.

James Kallas says: Since the cosmos itself is in bondage, depressed under evil forces, the essential content of the word "salvation" is that the world itself will be rescued, or renewed, or set free. Salvation is a cosmic event affecting the whole of creation. … Salvation is not simply the overcoming of my rebellion and the forgiveness of my guilt, but salvation is the liberation of the whole world process of which I am only a small part.20

The difficulties or pains or resentments that get built up when people live or work together, the assumptions you make about other people and how things should be done are like old food in the pot. Each morning, when you meet each other, let it be like new fresh food! So don't put new arisings into your dirty pot of yesterday's food.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

The transformation the church needs is the kind that results from beholding the glory of God in the face of Christ (2 Cor. 3:18–4:6).

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

I'll take a bath and then I'll return." No, God is the bath.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

God brings us low, even to the point of death, in order to bring us up again.

When revival comes to the human heart, it's a torrent, it's a cascade, it's a deluge. It's a downpour!

Revival is renewed interest after a period of indifference or decline. He wants to wake us up, to refresh our faith—to fire us up again.

Revival is not emotional extravagance where people are caught up in the moment and fall down, act bizarrely, unbiblically, and out of control. That's not revival.

Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.

If God is not changing you, you have to honestly ask, "Have I ever really converted?" To put it another way, "If your faith isn't changing you, it hasn't saved you." The people who really have the new birth—the people who really have that conversion experience—are changing.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.