Renewal Quotes
Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.
The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.
I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.
The life you live will be enrich with every journey you made.
Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.
Every fresh morning brings freshness of sacred-being.
I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration.
Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view, And a quiet soul.
Never judge yourself so harshly that you never arise from the ashes of life.
Rain storms are destructive and renewing, I want to turn my bad days into rain storms.
We are all tied to the burdens of this existence, and it seems as if everyday renewal is occurring in our lives and those around us.
As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.
And how unfair it would be to torture your heart in never feeling again, because of a feeling you haven't even tried to understand yet.
Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.
The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.
After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.
I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.
My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams
I couldn't imagine living in a state that didn't reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.
As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.
I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.
