Quotes about Renewal

The root idea of Sabbath is simple as rain falling, basic as breathing. It's that all living things—and many nonliving things too— thrive only by an ample measure of stillness.

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

Today is a new day. Your future does not equal your past.

Our goal is transformed hearts that lead to transformed lives. Transformed lives do not lead to transformed hearts. Are you trackin' with that?

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.