Quotes about Renewal

We all want the wrong things, but God is in the business of changing what we want.

Change within community is counterintuitive to the way we often think, but Scripture clearly presents it as God's way of making us more like Christ.

Our aim is that this book will help you look through the shattered glass of our sin to see the glory of a Redeemer who is ever-present, always at work to rescue and change us.

The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

He who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning air.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ? Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to grow young.

He saves us by realistic restoration of our heart to God and then by dwelling there with his Father through the distinctively divine Spirit. The heart thus renovated and inhabited is the only real hope of humanity on earth.

A disciple is someone who is learning by going through the process of change. All the things that we moan about and talk on and on about, such as pornography, divorce and drugs, are things that can be dealt with effectively only by bringing change into the mind and the spirit, into the will, into the body and into the fellowship of the person. Then people come out saying, "Who needs that stuff? I've got something much better than that.

Worship is at once the overall character of the renovated thought life and the only safe place for a human being to stand.

The biblical day begins at sundown—the early evening, we might call it. It is the end that is also the beginning.