Quotes about Renewal

Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.

Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin's power over me has been broken, in Jesus' name!

Redemption, this alone delivers from the Guilt and Power of Sin, this alone redeems, renews, and regains the first Life of God in the Soul of Man. Every Thing besides this, is Self, is Fiction, is Propriety, is own Will, and however coloured, is only thy old Man, with all his Deeds. Enter therefore with all thy Heart into this Truth, let thy Eye be always upon it, do every Thing in View of it, try every Thing by the Truth of it, love Nothing but for the Sake of it.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

Only God's presence can change people's lives.