Quotes about Renewal

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

God is not willing for this broken-down world to stay in its sorry condition. As Creator, he is able to look at it and see promise, the promise of a total restoration of its beauty. And he has asked you to move in with him to be one of his tools of restoration. While it is hard to live in a house that needs to be restored in some ways it is even harder to live there while the restoration takes place.

Your suffering is not a sign that you've been forsaken; rather, it's a sign that you live in a world that doesn't function the way God intended and is in need of complete renewal.

There's not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God's abundant mercies are not new.

Change begins at the level of the heart.

One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that 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.

The same grace that forgives your past empowers you to live in a new way in the future.

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.