Quotes About Renewal

We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.

Light requires the high relief of darkness. Seeds sprout in darkness. Children are conceived, and the sun reborn. Death returns us to it. Darkness is not ... it's not wrong .

Only when we have carved you into pieces can you be whole again.

Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.

John had no desire to move but to just be. The rain seemed to do more than water the earth tonight. It seemed to water him.

Switch places," Sam ordered me. "What are we doing, playing musical partners here?" "I didn't know we were playing with Foosball sharks here.We're starting over.

You need fresh air," he said. "We're outside," I pointed out. "It doesn't get any fresher than that.

EVERY NEW DAY IS A CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

What we don't often realize is that stopping to rest is also an act of worship. It's not just something we do for ourselves—something we get to decide if and when it is needed. It's something we do with God, honoring Him.

When done well, rest is a conscious act of worship and a means of holy transformation. Setting aside time to rest is setting aside time to become set apart. When we focus on Him in our rest, we become realigned with His heartbeat. We become restored to His image. Dedicating our rest, focusing it heavenward, turns it transcendent.

she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

I was tired of being me.

The park admits the wind, the petals lift and scatter like versions of myself I was on the verge of becoming; and ten years on and ten blocks down I still can't tell whether this dispersal resembles a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.

he didn't have to carry his pain alone, that the entire town wanted to help. This was a beautiful, comfortable, warm place for him to heal—for Wes to see that life could once more be filled with grace, with beauty. With love.

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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Are we, perhaps, here just for saying: House.Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Jug, Fruit tree, Window,—possibly: Pillar, Tower?

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Springtime and I wish I knew you

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Unfortunately, there is little evidence that the Church, so far at least, except among relatively small groupings, has adequately realized the internal renewal that the Council hoped for, which was primarily a renewal in holiness.

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.