Quotes about Renewal

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks.

I will give them a heart to know that I am The Lord." Jeremiah 24:7 He gives it at new birth, then again and again.

The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3

Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.

what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ.

My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water" (Jer. 2:13).

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.