Quotes About Renewal

But hope stops time, and time only heals when its flow is not stopped.

But hope stops time, and time only heals when it passes.

Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree, putting forth new green shoots of life.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

And now in age I bud again,After so many deaths I live and write;I once more smell the dew and rain,And relish versing: O my only light,It cannot beThat I am heOn whom thy tempests fell all night.

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heartCould have recovered greenness?

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,A box where sweets compacted lie.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

Martin Marty, a young Lutheran scholar, offered further insights into the situation in The New Shape of American Religion, which appeared in 1959. The so-called revival of religion, Marty explained, was largely a revival of "interest in religion." Unlike earlier American awakenings, this one was not primarily a renewal of Protestantism but "a maturing national religion

Regeneration, in other words, changed the whole person by changing the love at the heart of the person's being.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

Past tears are present strength.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

You are a sorry creature, Flashman. I have failed in you. But even to you I must say, this is not the end. You cannot continue here, but you are young, Flashman, and there is time yet. Though your sins be as red as crimson, yet shall they be as white as snow. You have fallen very low, but you can be raised up again …

Government is weaker today because the public it serves is quicker to anger, and because the Opposition has realised the safest way back to power is opposition, not policy renewal. No mandate need be respected because the Opposition can trust the media to set impossible standards for government to meet. p237

By rebuilding community, we will renew democracy and the hope we invest in it. We will develop political systems that are not so big that they cannot respond to us but not so small that they cannot meet the problems we face. We will achieve something that, paradoxically, we cannot realise alone: self-reliance. By helping each other, we help ourselves. The strong, embedded cultures

Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!

The principles of the Gospel never become stale, nor trite, [nor] threadbare. No matter how often we may hear a principle of truth dwelt upon, if the Spirit of God accompany the remarks that are made, it seems new, and sweet, and interesting, and not in the least wearisome. [CD2:89]

What we discover is transforming grace (Romans 12:2) that leads Christians to "walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4) and to avoid a life of sin (verses 1–14).

Beneath it his skin was milky white, serene and unlined, ready to begin anew, ready for the world to write upon it.

The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since last I wept.