Quotes About Renewal

But I do know you need to clear out the old to make way for the new. See, isn't that a wise saying? Won't I make a good and clever king? I'm fit for the role.

I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude.

If you have been brought low through personal defeat; if there is a call in your soul to a deeper purifying, to a renewed consecration; if there is the challenge of some new task for which you feel ill-equipped—then it is time to inquire of God whether He would not have you separate yourself unto Him in fasting.

If restoration and renewal are to come from the presence of the Lord—and what hope is there without them?—then it is men and women like these whom God will use to turn the tide.

Yet even now," says the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting." (Joel 2:12)

In giving us the privilege of fasting as well as praying, God has added a powerful weapon to our spiritual armory. In her folly and ignorance, the church has largely looked upon it as obsolete. She has thrown it down in some dark corner to rust, and there it has lain forgotten for centuries. An hour of impending crisis for the church and the world demands its recovery!

While there is tea, there is hope.

She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.

tal vez la seguridad, de una existencia serena para el resto de sus años. Sin embargo, el sentimiento vuelve a estar

Renouncing life's years is renouncing own life itself.

He llegado a esa dura etapa de la vida, que es el repliegue.

A splash of cold water is what it takes and life's good!

The past doesn't have to be our future.

The oceans and the skies…and the sun coming up each new day. That's all there is, I think. That's all that matters to think on.

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Growth requires reinvestment.

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

To make two ears grow where one grew before is a profound solace to my spirit. To watch a hired man do it would be an even profounder solace.

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Autumn is my spring!

Ser feliz é contemplar a assinatura do Autor da Existência nas coisas simples e anônimas. É se deslumbrar com a chuva e com o sol. É recomeçar tudo de novo quando necessário.

Farewell antithesis. I have suffered. All is paid. Let me go forth to recreate my sleep

In this quiet place on a quiet street where no one ever finds us gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain. --from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street