Quotes About Renewal

But, strange as it seemed to him, there were minutes- sometimes half hours- when, without his knowing why, the black burden seemed to lift itself again and he knew he was a living man and not a dead one.

as the train whirled him through the mountain passes and golden plains, the man who was 'coming alive' began to think in a new way and he thought long and steadily and deeply.

She knew now why she had come up here. It was so that she might feel like this—as if she was upheld far away from things—as if she had left everything behind—almost as if she had fallen awake again. There was no perfume in the air, but all was still and sweet and clear.

Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way.

Now I find the stack of chapters I called Under Magnolia. Why, after many years, even open these flowered folders? Dare alla luce, the Tuscans say at the birth of a baby, to give to the light.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was.

You still cry too easily, but without your tears, at least, everything would burn. You are Spring in your jeans, in the laughing leaves. I think pearls melted over your bones.

The lesson of this life is not for me to touch you again. It is to accept who I am now and not feel shame.

I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev. I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping.

Take my eye, I say. I have another.

Little by little we surfaced from the dark gluey depths of that summer, bobbing into the blinding light we had to relearn how to breathe

For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago" (Ephesians 2:10).

But I know Jesus arose. I feel his presence now, here, with me. I see the evidence of his Word everyday. From creation forth, the whole world is witness to God's plan revealed through his Son. From the beginning, he prepared us. In the passing of the seasons; in the way flowers spring forth, die, and drop seeds for life to begin again; in the sunset and sunrise. Jesus' sacrifice is reenacted every day of our lives if we but have the eyes to see.

Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

Emotions are powerful, but they also change as quick as the wind. That's why the Lord says to renew your mind. Don't base decisions on what you feel.

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.

Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1

We will praise God first thing every morning.

During the ice storms and long bleak nights of winter, she'd tell me the mountains were like sleeping giants that'd come awake again soon. "God'll see to it." And God did. Those mountains always did wake up, without fail. Year after year, the earth came back to life again with what Granny called "God-green.

Oh, Lord God of Israel, I don't understand these things. Is it wrong to want to belong to you? My soul longs for you. Help me to be obedient, to be a proper wife to Joseph, for you are sovereign and must have chosen this man for me. Make me a woman after your own heart. Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me.

Oh, Lord, I don't know what's happened over there, but You know. You see into men's hearts, and their plans are laid bare before You. Nothing is hidden. Jesus, please strengthen me. I'm an old man and tired of the battle. Renew me. Give me the strength to keep running the race.

Et ainsi, avec le soleil et les feuillages éclatants dont les arbres se couvraient à vue d'œil, comme dans un film projeté en accéléré, je retrouvai cette conviction familière que la vie recommençait toujours en même temps que l'été.

A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood.