Quotes about Renewal

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.

So we must continue to ransom the time, to restore all things in Christ.

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to the words of the prophet, "I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;

Ps. 126:1). God has done a stupendous and incredible work in us who bear Christ's name.

The illumination of   our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith   flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same   faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that   account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.

This renewal, indeed, is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by slow progress God abolishes the remains of carnal corruption in his elect, cleanses them from pollution, and consecrates them as his temples, restoring all their inclinations to real purity, so that during their whole lives they may practice repentance, and know that death is the only termination to this warfare.

No one truly belongs to the church and is counted among God's children, unless he first becomes a new man.

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.