Quotes about Renewal

But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness" (Lam 3:21—23).

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

From now on we recognize no one according to the flesh" (2 Corinthians 5:16)—you are a brand-new creature! Old things have passed away and all things have become new. Now, beloved of God, live accordingly.

That's our job as Christians—to perpetually bring renewal and supply everywhere we go. When things get out of hand and situations on earth start to go wild (whether it's the economy, or politics, or natural disasters) we're not supposed to jump into the flow of negativity with everyone else and start talking about how bad things are. We're supposed to change them! We're

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal.

Whoever looks from inside knows that everything is new.

the Spirit appears as the source of the future new life of Israel, especially of the ethico-religious renewal, and thus first becomes suggestive of the eschatological state itself.

We have found that the Spirit is both the instrumental cause of the resurrection-act and the permanent substratum of the resurrection-life.

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.