Renewal Quotes

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.

~ Mark Sayers

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it exists to make us feel things, to make the stone stony. The end of art is to give a sensation of the object seen, not as recognized. The technique of art is to make things 'unfamiliar,' to make forms obscure, so as to increase the difficulty and the duration of perception. The act of perception in art is an end in itself and must be prolonged. In art, it is our experience of the process of construction that counts, not the finished product.

~ Victor Shklovsky

The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.

~ J.d. Greear

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

~ Alister E. Mcgrath

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

~ David Platt

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

~ Jars Of Clay

Let your soul be washed by the waves of love to feel the joy of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

~ Boris Pasternak

Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

~ C.s. Lewis

George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.

~ Davis Miller

An old Celtic proverb boldly places death right at the center of life. ‘Death is the middle of a long life,’ they used to say. Ancient people did things like that; they put death at the center instead of casting it out of sight and leaving such an important subject until the last possible moment. Of course, they lived close to nature and couldn’t help but see how the forest grew from fallen trees and how death seemed to replenish life from fallen members. Only the unwise and the overly fearful think that death is the blind enemy of life.

~ Michael Meade

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again. So what I saw because of what I knew was a kind of death with the marvellous promise of less than a three-day resurrection.

~ Norman Maclean

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

~ Paul C. Nagel

No art like the art displayed in our salvation, no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church, and will be the theme of admiration in eternity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Harmony would only come with destruction.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death.

~ Kara Cooney

I couldn't imagine living in a state that didn't reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.

~ Avery Sawyer

Lipstick was an easy answer to boredom. It was the most exciting thing you could do in the shortest amount of time because for a second, you got to convince yourself that you were the kind of gal who wears lipstick every day. You got to pout to yourself, and trick yourself that you were glamorous. Then in a second it was over, time to wipe it off and start again.

~ Ainslie Hogarth

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

She had come to him the fool, thinking herself the experienced one. After all, she had nothing to give that another hadn't had, nothing so far as she knew. But he'd taken what hadn't been there; what was his; what was promised.

~ Shewanda Pugh

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.

~ Geraldine Brooks

i loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore.

~ Nikki Rowe

Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

~ Liam Neeson

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

~ Marilyn Ferguson