Growth & Renewal

“If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”

“Everything you do not use zealously in the right way must gradually become stunted and lost to you!”

“Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”

“Being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

“Having changed inwardly man also sees everything differently, as the popular saying goes!”

“Who despises the day of small things?”

“Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little.”

“But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."”

“Stir up the gift of God which is in you.”

“Become free in spirit, which means nothing else than let the spirit within you have its way! Then it simply cannot do other than journey towards the height; for its very nature draws it upwards with all certainty.”

“He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”

“But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.”

“Movement is the main commandment for everything that lies in this Creation, for Creation developed out of movement, and is maintained and renewed by movement.”

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.”

“Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”

“The moment a man begins to exert his good volition he also marks the end of his obligation to make atonement, which he must fulfil and can never escape.”

“The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.”

“Make thyself pure, O righteous man! Any one in the world here below can win purity for himself, namely, when he cleanses himself with Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good Deeds.”

“I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.”

“Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.”

“Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.”

“But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.”

“Cast off all the torment caused by thoughts, and trust instead in your spirit, which will surely find the right way if you yourselves do not wall it up.”

“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.”

“Unless one is born anew, he can't see God's Kingdom.”

“Continuous development through movement is a law in the Will of God and can therefore never be circumvented without ill effect.”

“To give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.”

“Behold, I am making all things new.”

“Man must bestir himself if he wishes to reach the Luminous Heights. Paradise awaits him, but it does not come down of itself unless he strives for it.”

“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.”

“And have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator.”

“To strive does not mean just to think, to plead and to beg as you are doing today, to strive means to act, to exert oneself to get there!”

“We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”

“Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.”

“Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver one by one, little by little, and from time to time.”

“Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”

“You must exert yourselves, exert yourselves honestly and with great diligence, so as to be able to come up again on to healthy ground!”

“Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.”

“I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.”

“Indeed, temptation can only strengthen you if your attitude is right; under the compulsion of the necessary resistance it will kindle your spirit to become more glowing and burst into flames, and thus is bound to bring you great benefit.”

“I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh.”

“Cast away from you all your transgressions in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel?”

“Arouse your spirit, and begin to think and speak in a far-seeing and comprehensive way!”

“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”

“The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.”

“Man must now become new in everything, new and strong within himself!”

“And said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."”

“As the Vassika plant sheds its withered flowers, men should shed passion and hatred, O ye Bhikshus!”

“For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.”

“Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

“You must build up entirely anew. What is old will fall away of itself.”

“So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.”

“So let all deeds thou doest be henceforth good.”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.”

“From the ground up there must be a complete newness, which grows and becomes strong out of simplicity and humility.”

“Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."”

“Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is.”

“If in the meantime the person concerned has changed inwardly to such an extent that something better than the original action came to life in him, then the reaction of that original type cannot gain a firm foothold.”

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.”

“For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.”

“If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil.”

“He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.”

“As soon as you try to find a transition you will never become free of what has hitherto prevailed, but it will ever again tenaciously drag you back. It can only be easy for you if you sever all the old with one slash, and thus step before the new without any old burden.”

“He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.”

“Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.”

“If he works diligently on himself he will mount upwards spiritually, as well as in the earthly sense.”

“But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”