Quotes about Renewal

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man. When a man begins to grow lax, he fears a little toil and welcomes external comfort, but when he begins perfectly to conquer himself and to walk bravely in the ways of God, then he thinks those things less difficult which he thought so hard before.

Know thou of a surety that thou oughtest to lead the life of a dying man. And the more a man dieth to himself, the more he beginneth to live towards God.

Repentance is a change of the mind, and regeneration is a change of the man.

But this name of 'Holy Ghost' [*It should be borne in mind that the word "ghost" is the old English equivalent for the Latin "spiritus," whether in the sense of "breath" or "blast," or in the sense of "spirit," as an immaterial substance.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Every new generation is a new crop that needs to be harvested for God.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!'' It

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!'' It seems to me

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.