Quotes about Renewal

But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.

It is a merciful Father who strips us when we need to be stripped, as the tree needs to be stripped of its blossoms. He is not finished with us yet, whatever the loss we suffer, for as we loose our hold on visible things, the invisible become more precious—where our treasure is, there will our hearts be.

Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.

If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.

God's Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory.

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible.

God's Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.

And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:The old order changeth, yielding place to new;And God fulfills himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.