Quotes About Renewal

I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.

You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.

Tennis is failing to renew its fanbase. And that's very worrying, because the future doesn't look bright.

I can't think of anything worse than to be stuck in something that I've already lost interest in.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.

The 2011 Cubs were the oldest team in the division, the most expensive team in the division, and the worst team in the division. And we really needed to start over.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.

If you will come back and make that pledge, God will heal your heart tonight.

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.

I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again.