Quotes About Renewal

Nalo Hopkinson

I had put on beauty as a hermit crab puts on a discarded shell.

In the back of my mind's eye, everything had a fuzzy green haze on it, like a brand-new tennis ball. The world was getting its Shine on.

You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. —Job 11:16–17

To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror.

She pulled herself through the narrow window into the darkness, midwife to her own rebirth.

A move is a way of lightening your load and starting things new.

Jesus doesn't just look at us; he looks into us. And if we are willing to hold his gaze, he will burn away what is meaningless and frivolous and contaminating.

The tree of life is not simply a thing of the past. It's a promise for our future.

My friend, if you are weak—worn out from work, worn down by criticism, weary of constant demands or disappointments—if you have come to the end of yourself, if you've been emptied of your delusions of strength, you're just at the right place to be filled with the goodness of God. You're finally fillable. You're fully dependent.

Everyone's ride must end. The free make the most of it. The sour leave disappointed. The stars light the way to the heavens, and in the blink of an eye, it all begins again.

WHATEVER KIND OF CRISIS OR CHALLENGE you may be facing today, your greatest need is for a fresh look at the incomparable Christ. He alone is able to save us from sin, sanctify our hearts, satisfy our souls, and sustain us when we grow weary of running and are tempted to throw in the towel.

Hechos 3:19, los "tiempos de refrigerio" vienen de "la presencia de Dios".

You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet Him in brokenness.

once we enter into a relationship with Christ through His shed blood, we have been eternally cleansed. But we allow our lives to become soiled by this world or by our own natural choices, we need to return to be washed once more.

She felt her future close upon her but unseen, like the sea behind the blowing veil of snow... She would follow Llyr's advice and face it a little every day...Day by day, step by step life would go forward. Eventually, the veil would lift, the cold would yield to the sun's warmth, and the world would be reborn. This dark time would pass.

The apple blossoms were just out, dancing like white froth in the April breezes.

It's the first time I've seen early morning in a terribly long time— The sun all yellow and red, like a huge luminous peach hanging on a black shadow-tree—just visible thru the mist—

The only way Christ's Life can be shown forth is by first "putting off" our ungodly thoughts and emotions and then "putting on" the Mind of Christ.

Jesus is the only One who can expose and cleanse my sin and heal me from the inside out.

I lifted my face to the sun and let its warmth and light caress me with its favor.

Christian art should grow out of the robust confidence that nothing is unredeemable—that Jesus himself entered into the darkest levels of human experience and transformed them into sources of life and renewal.

As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

Redemption is as comprehensive as creation or fall.