Quotes About Renewal

God can handle all your needs, mend the heart that hurts and bleeds, give the lonely something true that changes lives and makes them new. Jesus heals the fractured soul, makes it breathe, makes it whole, gives us hope when hope is gone, breaks the darkness, offers dawn, to all who follow, all who dare— the door is open, love is there.

Think of a caterpillar entering a cocoon. Once he does so, one of two things will happen: He will either transform into a butterfly, or he will die. But no matter what else happens, he will never climb out of the cocoon as a caterpillar. So it is with your protagonist.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles—parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor—but, by then, we know they're just costumes with zippers.

there is something really optimistic and inspiring about waking up every day as if it's a new day, and not being defined in terms of who you were yesterday

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

Dac? o idee pare muribund? sau, pur ?i simplu, irelevant?, poate c? nu-i trebuie decât s? fie introdus? într-un context cu totul nou pentru a fi trezit? iar??i la via??.

There's good news out of Africa. Not all of Africa. But from a large part of Africa that quietly, with little fanfare, is on the move. ('Emerging Africa', 2010)

There was permanence in change. It was the only way life could flourish.

God of compassion, you suffer in the grief of your people, and you are present to heal and forgive. May the sun of your justice rise on every night of oppression, and may the warm rays of your healing love renew each troubled mind; for you are the God of salvation and new life, made known to us in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn't doing what I was doing.

Every day is a brand new day!

The warming springtime of human hope does not give in to the wintry smiles of the cynic and the realist; it blossoms and it perishes in the sad autumnal winds. And then it is born again - for ever and ever.

The whole production sizzled with his personal observations, his discontent, he misplaced spirit of renewal. I gave them life, I think, but in such a way that no one could guess his intention. That was my revenge, which I knew he would notice.

So I get a second chance?" "You haven't used up the first one yet.

Change, it is the wine of life.

Stagnation must be burned away by fire.

Was his purpose in being here simply to find a new, more impulsive side to himself? He would be the first to admit that might be an improvement.

The world is reborn every day, and when I'm part of it, I feel I'm reborn too.

This was not the broken man who'd lounged around the Assembly Rooms. This was Peveral Othman, with all his poise and power, reborn, renewed. There was no dark taint to him now. How had it happened?

The world will not end after this, but change.

Miahel had been confined to atelier courts for over forty years; now he emerged, fresh as a dew-heavy bird, sleeky fed and quivering with unspent energy.

We had ben away too long, caught up in the wine of the world, drinking ourselves into heady euphoria.