Quotes About Renewal

God loves to use our bad habits to bring about His good.

Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible.

Valls permanecía aletargado dentro de su bola de excrementos, pajitas y tierra como la larva subterránea del escarabajo pelotero.

Because it is only by God's grace that we are enabled to renew our minds and be more like God, God gets all the credit.

My skin was less even than hers and it gets completely regenerated on a regular basis due to me being shot in the face.

He didn't know what he wanted most, a shower or to get his vaccinations renewed.

Every day is a chance to start over, my friend.

You've let the past come between you and God. Turn the past over to Him. He is strong enough to take it. Give Him your future, too. And He'll make you strong enough to face it.

You can't change who you were. But you can change who you are. And today, you start over. Right now. Hand it over to God. Leave it all right here and walk away.

Many of the trees and bushes put their finery away for the season and slept in their plain brown skins until the spring warmth would wake them again, and coax out their colors and cooling shade.

Creation does not merely take place once in the beginning but also at every moment throughout the whole of time.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.

She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.

God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

So the bond with the desert had to be renewed in every generation -fresh air for the breast, pure Arabic for the tongue, freedom for the soul; and many of the sons of Quraysh were kept as long as eight years in the desert, so that it might make a lasting impression upon them, though a lesser number of years was enough for that:

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

We aren't condemning good works. People first have to be made ready to do good works by being born anew. Only

This is the work and skill of God, to correct and emend what had been ruined by Jacob's error. He can make evil matters good when we have spoiled and harmed matters.

This name reminds us of Baptism, which should be practiced in daily tribulations and produce its effects so that we grow into a new and perfect man (cf. Eph. 4:13-15) and in this way the name of Christian be perfected until our name and Old Adam are abolished. Therefore

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.