Quotes About Renewal

She could smell the sea in the air, but more than that, she could smell the scent of the grass as it awoke from its winter slumber. She could hear the sound of crickets as they sang to the emerging stars. It was springtime on the North Island. It was springtime for the world.

SOME DAYS DESERVED to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates, and a warm, energetic companion.

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

God doesn't cause a demolition unless he's planned a renovation." Colonel Abbott Wilkins

C'est beau, j'ai dit. – Oui. Je n'aurais jamais dû partir. – Si. Comme ça tu es revenu. Il

This is the end. For me the beginning of life.

God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

Advent creates people, new people.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

The day will come … when people will once more be called to speak the word of God in such a way that the world is changed and renewed. It will be in a new language, perhaps quite nonreligious language, but liberating and redeeming like Jesus's language, so that people will be alarmed, and yet overcome by its power—the language of a new righteousness and truth, a language proclaiming that God makes peace with humankind and that God's kingdom is drawing near."[56]

The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this.

Only where God is can there be a new beginning. We cannot command God to grant it; we can only pray to God for it.

To grasp the old faithfulness of God anew every morning, to be able—in the middle of life—to begin a new life with God daily, that is the gift that God gives with every new morning….

Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

The cross of Christ is the death which we undergo once and for all in our baptism, and it is a death full of grace.

To live in the light of the resurrection - that is what Easter means

Jesus Christ in his word must be our death and our life.

God's strength makes us strong; His comfort comforts us. With Him, we no longer run; we rest.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.

When you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activity…it is a gift from God.

There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.