Quotes about Renewal
It's like the dirty water that spurts out of a bathtub that hasn't been used for a while; you just have to let it do its thing for a bit, and then clear water will begin to flow.
— Marianne Williamson
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.
— Mark Batterson
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
— Mark Buchanan
All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
— Mark Driscoll
A change of work is the best rest.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
— Henry David Thoreau
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!
— Joel Osteen
At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.
— John Milton
For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; and yet anon repairs his drooping head, and tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves.
— John Milton
He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself
— John Owen
Before the work of grace the heart is 'stony.' It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.
— John Owen