Quotes about Renewal
For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.
— Shane Claiborne
If you find yourself right now in a place where you are heartbroken, I want to remind you that Christ is very close to the broken. Our culture throws broken things away, but our Savior never does. He gently gathers all the pieces, and with His love and in His time, He puts us back together.
— Sheila Walsh
Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
— GK Chesterton
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?
— Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
— Henry Ford
Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
— John Milton
New life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday...
— Barbara Kingsolver
Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.
— Barbara Kingsolver
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later.
— Barbara Kingsolver