Quotes about Renewal

Sabbath forces you to listen to your life. Sabbath is a day when you are fully present to your pain, your stress, your worry, your fear. Sabbath is when you let whatever you've pushed down rise to the surface. Sabbath is a day when things that are broken get fixed, when things within you that have torn are mended.

Can you see why Jesus often began his teachings by saying "Repent!"? You know what repent means? It means to change your thinking, to see things in a new way, to have your mind renewed—all

heaven has the potential to be a kind of starting over. Learning how to be human all over again. Imagine living with no fear.

That's what Spirit does, it brings about new creation. And what was true thirteen billion years ago is true now.

When we talk about heaven, then, or eternal life, or the afterlife—any of that—it's important that we begin with the categories and claims that people were familiar with in Jesus's first-century Jewish world. They did not talk about a future life somewhere else, because they anticipated a coming day when the world would be restored, renewed, and redeemed and there would be peace on earth.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Nature's first green is gold

You are always new to me.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

If your religion has not changed your life, you'd better change your religion.