Quotes About Renewal

Lord, please crush my heart with the guilt of my sin so that you may fill it once again with the glory of your redeeming grace.

When the Word of God, faithfully taught by the people of God and empowered by the Spirit of God, falls down, people become different.

God's grace not only provides you with what you need, but also transforms you into what he in wisdom created you to be.

Cuando todos los días admito qué tan necesitado estoy, todos los días medito en la gracia del Señor Jesucristo y todos los días me alimento de la sabiduría restauradora de Su Palabra, estoy motivado para compartir con los demás la gracia que todos los días estoy recibiendo de las manos de mi Salvador.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God. We

When you feel unprepared, alone, overburdened, and besieged, what but God is able to give you reason to hope again, to believe again, and to live again?

The reality that on every morning brand-new mercy greets us is not the thing that grips our minds as we frenetically prepare for our day.

in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.

He hasn't just forgiven us, he's taken up residence in us, and in that there is real hope. For further study and encouragement: Ephesians 2:11–22

You can face your weakness with joy because you know that you have been given grace for that weakness; grace that is not a thing, but a person—the Holy Spirit, who makes you the place where he dwells in power.

One of the most beautiful, hopeful, and encouraging gospel themes that courses its way through Scripture is the theme of fresh starts and new beginnings. Fresh starts and new beginnings are a hallmark of the rescuing, forgiving, restoring, and transforming power of God's grace.

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ!

The cross teaches that you are not stuck, not cursed to pay forever for your past.

It's hard to grasp, but try; there will be a day when you will look back at this huge and horrible thing, and it will look to you like a little thing. As Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 4:16–17, "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

Consideración. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona vea? Confesión. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona reconozca y confiese? Compromiso. ¿A qué nuevas formas de vida está llamando Dios a esta persona? Cambio. ¿Cómo deben aplicarse estos nuevos compromisos a la vida diaria?

Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.

Buddhism has some mystical methods that we Christians might take a good look at and make good use of in repairing or remodeling our own. For me Buddhism has been a rich, indeed an indispensable, aid in renewing and expanding the repertoire of my Christian practice.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

All Wrongs Reversed.

I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:24–25.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

Green is the soul of Spring. Summer may be dappled with yellow, Autumn with orange and Winter with white but Spring is drenched with the colour green.