Quotes about Renewal

This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

Advent creates people, new people.

The Advent season is a season of waiting, but our whole life is an Advent season, that is, a season of waiting for the last Advent, for the time when there will be a new heaven and a new earth.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

The day will come … when people will once more be called to speak the word of God in such a way that the world is changed and renewed. It will be in a new language, perhaps quite nonreligious language, but liberating and redeeming like Jesus's language, so that people will be alarmed, and yet overcome by its power—the language of a new righteousness and truth, a language proclaiming that God makes peace with humankind and that God's kingdom is drawing near.

The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this.

Only where God is can there be a new beginning. We cannot command God to grant it; we can only pray to God for it.

To grasp the old faithfulness of God anew every morning, to be able—in the middle of life—to begin a new life with God daily, that is the gift that God gives with every new morning….

The cross of Christ is the death which we undergo once and for all in our baptism, and it is a death full of grace.

To live in the light of the resurrection - that is what Easter means.

A spirituality that can contribute to the renewal of the church will be solidly trinitarian, as opposed to a mystical monism in which diversity in God is sacrificed to simplicity. It will also be historically oriented-rooted in concrete human history and directed to the transformation of history into eternity.