Quotes About Renewal

Most people look at their current state of affairs and they say, "This is who I am." That's not who you are. That's who you were.

Creation means that something new is created - which automatically replaces the old. You don't have to think about what you want to change; instead, think about what you want to create.

Si quieres cambiar algo, cambia de canal y de frecuencia, cambiando de pensamientos.

All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

Don't look so sad," she said, touching my cheek. "All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

I want you to know that I think you've saved my life.

I look back over the events of my life and see the hands that carried Moses to his grave lifting me out of mine. In remembering I go back to these places where God met me and I meet him again and I lay my head on his breast, and he shows me the land beyond the Jordan and I suck into my lungs the fragrance of his breath, the power of his presence.

Vdcaelum novum et terram novam. (Revelations 21.1.)

The church embodies the power of the resurrection in the midst of a not-yet-redeemed world.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Reframing is also the pivotal element in the creative process: it is the ability to put a commonplace event in a new frame that is useful or enjoyable.

As it fell upon a dayIn the merry month of May,Sitting in a pleasant shadeWhich a grove of myrtles made.

He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

Whenever it seems that God is not doing anything fresh in your life, focus on the love relationship and stay there until God gives you a new assignment.

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." ? Gautama Buddha

God knows how to turn things around. He can turn your sorrow into joy – just let Him in.

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

Redemption is participatory, not imitative.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent—now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

If we think only the thoughts that are customary to us, and listen only to the words of those who are of our mind, we are little likely to find refreshment and renewal in our minds, and thus all too likely to suppose that we have come to the end of all deliberations that we have to make.

She could tell them about a simple machine needing no fuel and little maintenance, one that steadily sequesters carbon, enriches the soil, cools the ground, scrubs the air, and scales easily to any size. A tech that copies itself and even drops food for free. A device so beautiful it's the stuff of poems. If forests were patentable, she'd get an ovation.

To solve the future, we must save the past. My simple rule of thumb, then, is this: when you cut down a tree, what you make from it should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.