Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

I look at my faith like a room, and there was all of this furniture in there, but I had inherited most of the furniture. Then, when I got divorced, I took everything out just to see how I was going to refurnish the room, and that was a very essential step in my life. It was great.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

A new heart for a New Year, always!

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

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.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

The first person you have to resurrect is yourself

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

Today life opened inside me like an egg.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

Like any other spiritual transformation or renewal, conversion must begin with an honest and a sincere admission that we need God's trans-formative power in our lives to achieve any real change, no matter the perspective from which we might begin.

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.