I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

Don't dismiss the idea of a comeback if you're someone who is already saved and walking faithfully with the Lord. You may need a fresh start after you find that your dreams—holy dreams—have crashed into pieces at your feet.

From that cracked-open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

And from the death of each day's hope, another hope sprang up to live tomorrow.

No matter what mistakes you have made - no matter how you've messed things up - you can still make a new beginning. The person who fully realises this suffers less from the shock and pain of failure and sooner gets off to a new beginning.

Broken people just need piecing back together.

No gone is too far gone.

He saves us by realistic restoration of our heart to God and then by dwelling there with his Father through the distinctively divine Spirit. The heart thus renovated and inhabited is the only real hope of humanity on earth.

This is a day of little faith — of few convictions — a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.