Quotes about Renewal

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.

If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

Man is not God but hath God's end to serve, A master to obey, a course to take, Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become. Grant this, then man must pass from old to new, From vain to real, from mistake to fact, From what once seemed good, to what now proves best. —Robert Browning

But the most impossible thing for you is to be so closely identified with the Lord that there is literally nothing of your old life remaining.

O Lord, how good it is for me to know Thee; how essentially necessary it is for me to draw nigh to Thee. How can I falter when Thou art my Life!

No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a "white funeral" - the burial of the old life

Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply.

Staleness is an indication that something in out lives is out of step with God.

We seem to think that God wants us to give up things! God purified Abraham from this error, and the same process is at work in our lives. God never tells us to give up things just for the sake of giving them up, but He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having, namely, life with Himself. It is a matter of loosening the bands that hold back our lives.

Dec. 31… "Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.