Quotes About Renewal

I died recently, and I am in no hurry to enjoy the experience again just yet.

The water had got into the seams and joints of the world and washed away the glue. Lives and little universes broke their banks, mingling and bubbling over and flowing out to join the river. Plastic tricycles with peeling sticker eyes, photograph albums, Bic pens, dish brushes, barrettes, uprooted tomato plants. Comics spun giddily, socks sulked against windowsills.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Wenn alles seinen Sinn verliert, gibt es nur zwei Möglichkeiten: Entweder man geht selbst zugrunde oder man vernichtet die Welt, die einen bis zu diesem Augenblick umgeben hat. Man sprengt sein altes Zuhause und geht auf die Suche nach einem neuen.

O carte poate s? arunce în aer fiin?a care erai pân? atunci ?i s? dea na?tere uneia noi.

Abandonne le passé et le présent démarrera

Long ago, the Celtic god Dagda drew a veil between humans and the Fey Folk. In our time, the Goddess has charged me to help bring the Fey magic back through that veil so that we humans can be renewed by the starry-eyed mysticism of the Little People, by the passion and wisdom of the poet in love with the Goddess, and by the wild integrity of the dark and dangerous Faerie Folk.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

A new world is coming . . . The paradise that man lost will be regained . . . One day we will live in a brand-new world.

God wants us to be broken in spirit so that He can make us strong at the broken places

Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same.

The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.

Most of all, let the Word of God fill you and renew your mind every day. When our minds are on Christ, Satan has little room to maneuver.

But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles.

You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.

God's goal isn't just to remove the bad things in our lives; He wants to replace them with good things. His plan is to remake us from within, by His Holy Spirit.

We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, which craves the world and the flesh. We are told to "make not provision for the flesh" [Romans 13:14 KJV].

God's purpose for us is that we ought to be conformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to "be transformed" [Romans 12:2 NIV].

Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another and build each other up. No longer will our lives seem ordinary and indistinguishable from the rest of the world.