Quotes about Renewal
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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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….
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To live in the light of the resurrection - that is what Easter means.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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.
— Donald Bloesch
God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.
— Max Lucado
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
— George W. Bush
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
— Wendell Berry
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
— St. Augustine
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
— JI Packer
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
— Joseph Campbell