Quotes about Renewal

Though we invite, this healing comes in answer to another voice than ours; a strength not ours returns

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep you never were.

Yes, urge I do: warped chrysalis of what blind perfect seed: for who shall say what gnarled forgotten root might not bloom yet with some globed concentrate more globed and concentrate and heady-perfect because the neglected root was planted warped and lay not dead but merely slept forgot?

What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.

I will rise when he calls my name, no more sorrow, no more pain, I will rise on eagles wings before my God; fall on my knees, and rise, I will rise.

What the sunshine is to the field and to the flowers the Holy Spirit is to the life of man.

You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

To reget deeply is to live afresh.

Ezekiel 36:26: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.