Quotes About Renewal

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ, and all the mind of Christ.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists...

you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...

with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...

you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...

when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in...

before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings...

Up from the meadows rich with corn,Clear in the cool September morn.

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

The Night is mother of the Day,The Winter of the Spring,And ever upon old DecayThe greenest mosses cling.

And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, at rest.

Bob Dylan sang, "He not busy being born is busy dying.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

Perhaps, however, it will help us to remind ourselves that salvation is more importantly about what we are saved to (renewed access to the presence of God and relationship with him) than what we are saved from. This point is significant because too many Christians find it too easy to think only that they are saved, forgiven and on their way to heaven instead of taking seriously the idea that we are to be in deepening relationship with God day by day here and now.

We crossed through cornfields and soy, a new planting of loblolly pines

Looking back, all he could see was a swirling pillar of ash and bones behind him. But ahead, there was someone standing on the surface of the water! Suddenly, a strong hand plunged through the watery roiling veil and held his arm fast. It jerked, and Dietrich shuddered. The hand lifted him straight up--into the warmth, into the light. "This is the end--for me the beginning of life.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Over everything—up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the riverbanks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing on charred tree trunks—was a blanket of fresh, vivid, lush, optimistic green; the verdancy rose even from the foundations of ruined houses. Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city's bones. The bomb had not only left the underground organs of the plants intact; it had stimulated them.

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

Life is a renovation project.