Quotes About Renewal

Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink.

Season of Joy: She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year.

she tapped her finger and nothing happened and she thought she had lost her magic, but it had only changed and it took her awhile to figure it out.

even after all these winters, I see you sitting there, perched at the edge of sunlight, feeling like the invitation of spring

Resorting to connecting the dots this morning because it was a long night & he needs to do something really simple to get started again.

You have to remember to make it all over again every day, the angel said to me. Otherwise it all goes to hell.

You are strangling your life-force with words. Do not live your life searching around for answers in your word-hoard. You will find only words to rationalize your experience. Allow yourself to open up to wyrd and it will cleanse, renew, change and develop your

She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.

For the first time in a long time, she had nowhere to go and nothing to do. Her life was a white room. She felt like one of her patients who came out of her treatments and suddenly had an emptiness in their brain where something horrible had been. They'd faced their fears, but they always asked her what to do next. She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.

A-that it is not the literal past, the 'facts ' of history, that shape us, but images of that past embodied in language. B-we must never cease renewing those images; because once we do, we fossilise.

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods?

You don't have to be perfect. Not for God, not for your community, not for anyone. All you have to be is human. All you have to be is you. So lay down when you need to, and then, eventually, it will be time for you to get up, have something to eat, and try again.

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, "Well, I am guilty." It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.

For the people who walked in darkness will see a radiant light shining upon them—illuminating even the darkest places. They once lived in the shadows of death, but now a brilliant light is shining on them.

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.

When I consider the blessings God has given and still continues to give me, I feel ashamed. I feel I have abused those blessings, barely using them profitably to become more like Christ. Still, God in His mercy gives us a little more time. We can begin all over again and repair the lost opportunity, returning with complete confidence to this kind Father, who is always ready to receive us lovingly.

He had noticed a tree stripped of its leaves. He realized that in a little while the leaves would return, and the flowers and fruit would appear.

In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.

Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

Running water never grows stale. So you have to keep flowing.

Mother, you've given me even more than you know," he said. "I feel revived. That you'd never forgotten me was always my fondest hope. Knowing it's true is a boon of incalculable value. Thank you.

I'm ready to grow young again