Quotes About Renewal

A person looking into a carnival mirror couldn't accurately describe the true person who is being reflected in the mirror. Neither can you accurately say what truth is when you look through the distorted mirror of your soul. The soul within you—how you see a matter—needs to be restored. You do this by exchanging your thoughts for God's truth.

Here is the secret to your life as a kingdom woman of excellence: a short memory coupled with a clear direction. If you are going to live in excellence, you have to forget yesterday. Whether it was good, bad, or ugly, if it's yesterday, you need to let it go. When you carry yesterday further than you ought to, you ruin today. If you ruin today, then you spoil tomorrow.

When you got saved, God deposited deep down within you all of the righteousness that belongs to Jesus Christ. But you can't benefit unless you are willing to dig down deep with the shovel of truth so that God will release a brand-new you surrounded by the secure protection of a breastplate of His righteousness.

first transform what you think.

Many believers today don't realize that even though we received the Holy Spirit when we trusted in Christ for salvation from our sins, the ongoing dwelling of the Holy Spirit's presence is something we need to seek on a regular basis. Just as driving your car is difficult if it's running on fumes, living the victorious Christian life is impossible without the flame of the Spirit burning bright.

When you hang on to the weight of yesterday, it will hinder the progress to tomorrow.

Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature's wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It's been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more.

La Primera Guerra Mundial destruyó la vieja Europa; la Segunda Guerra Mundial generó las condiciones para una nueva.

Could I return, I will not say to revel, but breath this sky, under which I was born: to rejoice with sea views and gardens; to consol me with your kindness; to drink this wine or this water, that might reduce my illness…

California is where you get to start over.

It is true, monsieur! At a certain age your sight comes back, rejuvenated.

But for a moment I stay there, suspended above the green swell of the land as though thrown up onto the crest of a wave, seeing for the first time a break in the at horizon. For this the boats crossed the ocean, the wagons climbed the mountain pass. For this the songs were sung with desert all around. This is what is given: the promise there is still a way, if we can find it, the promise we can always be renewed.

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

God never convicts believers of sin in order to condemn them. God convicts us of sin to change us. He wants us to have a closer walk with Him. He wants us to get rid of this useless sin in our lives.

God's people must understand that repentance is not a word in the Bible used by God to bring destruction and discouragement. Repentance brings life,

Humility is a key to recovery and renewal. When humanity entered the modern era, we thought that we were in control of the world. No need for a Higher Power of any sort. We were our own "masters of the universe." Eventually we discovered how very wrong we were. Some came to this recognition on their own. For others, it was the voyage from active addiction to recovery

Tiempo voraz, embótale al león la garra Y haz que la propia tierra sus crías embeba, al fiero tigre descolmilla y desquijarra y sepulta en su sangre a la fénix longeva. William Shakespeare, Soneto XIX

It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you.

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.

I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button — click — and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body — just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.

Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.

but when you see something only once a year it's always new, as if you're seeing it for the first time.

He urged his audience to get religion not simply for their own salvation but for the salvation of their city and country. Without "an old-fashioned revival," he warned, "we cannot last!" A

The past is now the past—done, finished, a part of my life which has been put away as one does a completed novel. Today, I can once again breathe the cool, refreshing air of springtime. Today, I can reflect on my life and accept myself as one who has made mistakes and rectified them. Today, I have found peace of mind. Today, the grave is open and my soul and I are reunited. Tom Saal, November 2010