Quotes About Renewal

The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born

The garden is a kind of sanctuary.

Offering dragons quarter is no good,they regrow all their parts & come on again,they have to be killed.

See Him in the vernal beauty of the flower, In the ripe glory of the autumnal glow; In summer's rich and radiant festal hour, In winter's purest, fairest robes of snow: There art Thou!

They believed my story was over, but it was nearly the beginning.

Know thyself." Sure, of course, you must. But afterwards, the project is to make yourself a stranger to yourself once more.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.

Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces that create and uphold life.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.

cómo clama la tierra por cada muerto mientras da manzanas, topos fugaces, minúsculos pájaros

Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

Growing fast in sawdust

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to the words of the prophet, "I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;

the faith of   the gospel is called the knowledge of God's grace; for no one has ever   tasted of the gospel but the man that knew himself to be reconciled to   God, and took hold of the salvation that is held forth in Christ.   

The illumination of   our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith   flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same   faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that   account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.

This renewal, indeed, is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by slow progress God abolishes the remains of carnal corruption in his elect, cleanses them from pollution, and consecrates them as his temples, restoring all their inclinations to real purity, so that during their whole lives they may practice repentance, and know that death is the only termination to this warfare.

no one truly belongs to the church and is counted among God's children, unless he first becomes a new man. This

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

Live in the flesh but not according to the flesh.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

I could not live without seasons, for in seasons are reflected in the rhythms of our existence: of birth and maturity, or decline and decay, yet always with the promise of renewal for those who remain.