Quotes About Renewal

People must hope so much when they tear streets up and fight at barricades. But, whoever wins, the streets are laid again and the trams start running again. One hopes too much of destroying things. If revolutions do not fail, they fail you.

Live to seek to draw close to God in all ways and seek His transforming love

God's Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.

Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible.

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

God's Word changes the way you think, feel, and live.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong tom or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough- but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

When something ends, let it end.

But this is a city that gets born anew in the fresh eyes of every young person who arrives here for the first time. So that city, that place—newly created for my eyes only—will never exist again. It is preserved forever in my memory like an orchid trapped in a paperweight. That city will always be my perfect New York.

But this is a city that gets born anew in the fresh eyes of every young person who arrives here for the first time. So that city, that place—newly created for my eyes only—will never exist again. It is preserved forever in my memory like an orchid trapped in a paperweight. That city will always be my perfect New York. You can have your perfect New York, and other people can have theirs—but that one will always be mine. —

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.

Watch the heat of day pass into the cool night. Let go.

Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana . . .

You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you've given up. Every