Quotes about Renewal

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

Let your tears touch to the ground, lay your shattered pieces down. And be amazed by how grace can take a broken girl, and put her back together again.

And on their naked limbs the flowry roof/Show'r'd Rose, which the Morn repair'd.

To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.

For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.

the "axe is to be laid to the root of the tree," — the deeds of the flesh are to be mortified in their causes, from whence they spring.

The Mortification Of Sin In Particular Described

2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

It isn't because of who I am, Maureen. It's because of who He is and what He's done—what He longs to do in you!

God thank you for everything you've given us. For the time we have together. And for the miracle of Christmas. Thank you for the Atonement, the chance to start all over again. Help us to always remember who we are and to trust that we are worthy to make it through our storms. Amen.

If you don't change, you're dead or dead inside.