Quotes About Renewal

Sleep was like sex. The less you had, the more you craved it, and Tracy Crosswhite hadn't had much of either lately. She stretched

You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.

In his 1999 Letter to Artists, John Paul II wrote that "beauty is the visible form of the good, just as the good is the metaphysical condition of beauty." There is "an ethic, even a 'spirituality' of artistic service which contributes [to] the life and renewal of a people," because "every genuine art form, in its own way, is a path to the inmost reality of man and of the world.

Reflective man produces new philosophies; it is only regenerate man who holds the clue to a society that is really new.

In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky, That circle 'round a gleaming eye, Turning darkness all away, Even depths will know their day, For every shadow has its end, In light! Life will return again!

The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.

Only a daily renewed astonishment at things as they are can save us from the idols; it is our love of real processes and actual beings that keeps us sane.

Onions die quietly, Cabbages shed no blood; All plants forgive: By the waters that comprise them They wash man's hands And let him walk away.

Well, if you find yourself living by something that can't forgive ... then you die to it and look around for something that can.

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods -

Here are your waters and your watering place.Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. "Catherine.

The new is forever new, but our powers to appreciate it quickly weaken and age. The new is forever the same, but our language for understanding it changes with the shadows. The truth is forever the same, forever new.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (Creation, Preservation, Destruction, Quiescence).

Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and seeThe dew bespangling herb and tree.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

The pieces of soul can't be cut out without filling them up again, that's a real law there. God's law. Can't cut out the pieces any more than you can go around with a big hole in your gut. Got to be plugged up, replaced somehow.

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

I [the Lord] will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. (Isa. 43:19

The LORD 's mercies . . . are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22–23

Yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning. – Psalm 59:16

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. – Psalm 107:14