Quotes about Renewal

The whole message God wants to tell us is that if we want to experience God, we must first abandon our thoughts and then start thinking His.

We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

I find January hard. Nothing really happens.

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only now that we are in the presence of God.

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." —2 Corinthians 3:16-18

When preached purely, His Word exalts, frightens, shocks, and forces us to reassess our whole life.

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life." —Titus 3:4-7 To live in the wisdom