Quotes About Renewal

When democracy gets old and tired, it demands a little chaos to refresh itself.

1996) The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion and Renewal. New York: Addison-Wesley.

The presence of the Holy Spirit brings life. His nearness is refreshing and restores the vitality of your soul.

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.

Keep looking. I'd love to be able to start over again fresh. I'd love to look in that other person's face and see nothing but a clear reflection. Maybe this time I'd be more careful not to damage it.

The industry is aging!

An essential part of being truly apostolic is to seek revival, by which we mean a continual atmosphere of restoration and renewal that results in spiritual life, health, strength, and vigor.

Your pain will not always be like this," I told her. "It will change." This is a message that the grieving need to hear, and in the moment of saying it, I often observe a shift. The person looks up at me and says, "It will?" And he or she suddenly becomes lighter.

The secret to practicing resurrection is in giving away who we are and what we have—completely and wholly—to something greater than ourselves. It's in escaping from the circumstances and choices that entomb us and entering into new life here and now.

In autumn, treat fallen leaves with respect.

Así que huyes de los causantes de dolor, vas a un sitio nuevo, intentas convencerte de que el viejo sitio no existe, que la distancia borra la historia».

Así que huyes de los causantes de dolor, vas a un sitio nuevo, intentas convencerte de que el viejo sitio no existe, que la distancia borra la historia

Leave the past alone, it cannot be reshaped. The future alone is ours. It starts fresh and clean from this very minute.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

Only God's presence can change people's lives.

As believers, you don't need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.