Quotes about Renewal

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.

We're Easter people, living in a Good Friday world.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.