Quotes About Renewal

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

there will come a day when this war shall end and we will have the sunlight on our faces again.

And I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.d'Elbée, Jean du Coeur de Jésus

I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.

I have often noticed that Jesus will not give me a store of provisions; He nourishes me with food that is entirely new from moment to moment, and I find it in my soul without knowing how it got there.

Is the Black Church Dead? Or, Can These Bones Live?

Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world's in a rush to be beautiful.

For the first time in years, she felt a sense of belonging, of amazing lightness. She

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Our wives and the Holy Spirit have a lot in common. It is not enough for our wives to move into a home. That is only the beginning. Redecorating is a must. And this is not a one-time redecorating. It keeps going and going. The same is true with the Holy Spirit. Continual work is inevitable. It is never done. It is a lifelong process.

have seen too many so-called hopeless churches become turnaround churches.

A failure to pray was tantamount to a failure to breathe.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

Cada día debemos renovar nuestro propósito y excitarnos a mayor fervor, como si hoy fuese el primer día de nuestra conversión, y decir: Señor, Dios mío, ayúdame en mi buen intento y en tu santo servicio, y dame gracia para que comience hoy perfectamente, porque no es nada cuanto hice hasta aquí. I Par. 14, 11

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man. When a man begins to grow lax, he fears a little toil and welcomes external comfort, but when he begins perfectly to conquer himself and to walk bravely in the ways of God, then he thinks those things less difficult which he thought so hard before.

Know thou of a surety that thou oughtest to lead the life of a dying man. And the more a man dieth to himself, the more he beginneth to live towards God.

Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.