Quotes About Renewal

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: 'Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life'.

No, in the end, easier to tear it down and start over. The soundless scream of social media these days. The system must be destroyed. It can't be fixed. Unitopia must have begun to seem like a Band-Aid applied to a gaping chest wound.

Writing, for me, is like trying to restart an engine that has rested for years, silent and rusting, in an empty lot—choked with water and dirt, infiltrated by ants and spiders and cockroaches. Vines and weeds shoved into it and sprouting out of it. A kind of coughing splutter, an eruption of leaves and dust, a voice that sounds a little like mine but is not the same as it was before;

What occurs after revelation and paralysis? Either death or a slow and certain thawing.

Time for another drink, somewhere else. A kind of oblivion.

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve… If something is buried in the past, leave it buried.

Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.

We all need first aid. we all need an infusion every now and again. We all need hope and help and holiness, and the temple does all of that for me.

At the end, you find the beginning.

Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes

tastes like licorice) and then dried just as fast. The nicks on my arms from climbing down from the firebird's nest are somehow gone too.

That was the nice thing about housework. No matter how dirty something got, you could fix it.

Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.

Flatten your feet, because nothing in your life is too dead for resurrection.

You don't have to be who you first were. That early version of yourself, that season you were in, even the phase you are currently experiencing—it is all good or purposeful or at least useful and created a fuller, nuanced you and contributed to your life's meaning, but you are not stuck in a category just because you were once branded that way. Just because something was does not mean it will always be.

Dear one, the wine is still good. If you are asking hard questions, it is because you love the wine. You believe it is good and marvelous and worthy of consumption. It has real lasting power. The wine has managed to woo every generation since time began. You are asking questions of the wineskins, which is wise and appropriate, because they don't last . They stretch as long as they can, but at some point, they have to be replaced so the wine can keep flowing.

God ordained the Sabbath for us, not just as another requirement from us.

I am being lured back to the way of Jesus. I am finding it - sorry for this - spiritual. I'd kind of forgotten how compelling the Spirit is. He is the fresh wind everyone is looking for. He reminds me I am a member of a grand assembly that inspires and stirs and empowers. On bad days, when I secretly whisper, "Is this all there is?" the Spirit urges me to join Him at the bottom, where the best grassroots movements have always begun.