Quotes about Renewal

Your past must die for your future to live.

God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.

I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up." In this way we can walk together in the fresh move of the Holy Spirit.

we are to work from our rest, not rest from our work.

Children make you want to start life over.

The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.

The Gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is mean to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.

The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all things are remade.