Quotes About Renewal

Al McGuire to Billy Packer . I saw the first sign of spring in Milwaukee the other day . Packer : What's that ? Al : The curb.

Doesn't that look beautiful after ten years without a beer?

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

The real, true spring had arrived, the chestnut trees were in blossom, and the Boche could do nothing about it.

It was a great softening, night and day it continued, a water funeral for the dying winter.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there. —H. Richard Niebuhr

It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.

There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.

In this chapter and the next, I will contend that the Christians' habitus was formed patiently, unhurriedly, through careful catechesis as well as through the communities' reflexive behavior, and that it was renewed in the regular worship of the Christian assemblies.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.

Perhaps your spirit is sour, cold, indifferent, and God asks what is wrong. He knows why you are like that, but He wants you to tell Him. He wants you to confess that you have feared and panicked, that you have questioned His purpose and plan for your life. You have doubted His Word and His promises, and you have failed to renew before God every day the anointing of His Spirit, so that you have become spiritually stale.

God doesn't want new methods; He wants new men.

I keep hoping that one day I will arise reborn from my phoenix dreams instead of feeling like day-after barbecue.

Sometimes I think that I've never been so free as during that couple of hours when I'm trotting up the path out of the gates and turning by that bare-faced, big-bellied oak tree at the lane end. Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

I think Phish will come back. I just think it's time for a breather.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

I like to play Gandhi, but I've got tired of it, though not bored of it. I have to go through the physicality of losing weight.