Quotes About Renewal

Who doesn't like a redemption story?

My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.

I should not become redundant or jaded.

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

There's one surefire hangover cure, and that's time.

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

The hardest part about writing any song is, what do you write? And how do I rewrite things? You start to run out of ideas that feel fresh.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.

I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback.

Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.

Slipknot's the kind of band you need to step away from and kind of take a break from and let it heal, so to speak.

I want to be a conduit for healing.

I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.

I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.

Only God can turn our nation and the hearts of its people.

How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

How kind is weariness sometimes! It is like the Father's hand laid a little heavy on the heart to make it still.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.