Quotes About Renewal

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

Sometimes I'm tired simply means I need something new.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith this is my joy.

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

I was going through enormous changes in my own life, so I thought, 'Well, maybe it's time for something new here.

making things sound new was the whole idea.

It really is a shame that through our sad neglect of wonders, hopefulness, and trust we allowed so much clutter and debris to build up in the space that once connected us to Diamond Green.

But the boy had a gift. And it was in the nature of a gift that it be endlessly given.

She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.

Because Trickster is looking to stir things up, to scramble the conventions, to undo history and received notions of what is art and what is not, to sing for his supper, to find and lose himself in the act of entertaining. Trickster haunts the boundary lines, the margins, the secret shelves between the sections in the bookstore. And that is where, if it wants to renew itself in the way that the novel has done so often in its long history, the short story must, inevitably, go.

I don't know if I went quite that far in my thinking." "But now?" "Now I don't think about it." "Yeah, I know." "You don't approve. You think I should just keep dredging it all up all the time." "Not all the time. Just, like, every ten years or so.

It was never just a question of escape. It was also a question of transformation.

The sun and salt air worked deeply on her muscles and eased the tension and pain. It

The Lincoln lawyer was back on the beat. The Lone Ranger was riding again.

Drastic change creates an estrangement from the self, and generates a need for a new birth of a new identity.