Quotes About Renewal

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

Children make you want to start life over.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.