Quotes About Renewal

Recalculate. Then show me sunrise again.

Wake up, my guest / You have slept long / In the house of my ribs, / The House of my heart / Wake up now, / See through my eyes, / Walk with my feet, / Yush, my old friend

You show me a church that does not have a constant flow of new Christians coming in, and I will show you a church that is stagnating. We in the church have a choice: evangelize or fossilize! The

Scripture memorization has a number of benefits. We become what we place our minds on.

How can we account for long-term memory", van Lommel asks, "if the molecular makeup of the cell membrane of neurons is completely renewed every two weeks and the millions of synapses in the brain undergo a process of constant adaptation?"15

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

Feed the soul beauty, and it will heal itself.

God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.

Self-Portrait at Twenty" I stood inside myself like a dead tree or a tower. I pulled the rope of braided hair and high above me a bell of leaves tolled. Because my hand stabbed its brother, I said: Make it stone. Because my tongue spoke harshly, I said: Make it dust. And yet it was not death, but her body in its green dress I longed for. That's why I stood for days in the field until the grass turned black and the rain came.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

She lifts her face to the breeze and lets her unhappiness lie quiet, like a calmed baby who will grow fractious again when it wakes to the difficult business of living.

but death can't be the final word, can it? I mean, look at this fire. The wood that we threw on it has been decimated, or so it seems, but in reality, the wood has been transformed into gasses and ashes. I think about that, you know, about how nothing is ever destroyed, but only changes form.

My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season

Bei allem Respekt, Herr Doktor, Sie langweilen mich mit ihrer Frederica. Ich war dreimal verheiratet und ich kann Ihnen eines versichern: Wenn sie einmal in Ihrem Leben aufrichtig geliebt haben, haben Sie die besten Chancen, erneut zu lieben.

Álvaro Mutis había escrito una gran crónica de su estancia en Lecumberri, él haría su Reclusorio Oriente reloaded.

It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

But all things lost can be found again, the trees whispered.

the water in this cave is small but we begin to heal and it is better water than the last water no water should bring pain water should not be flat water should not be smooth water should not be empty water should not have a shape there is no shape of water

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

We have also here the explanation of his constant emphasis on salvation as a bestowal of Life. Life means for him primarily fellowship with God, the partaking of the life of God, and therefore also a deliverance from sin.

if the classic idea of the Atonement ever again resumes a leading place in Christian theology, it is not likely that it will revert to precisely the same forms of expression that it has used in the past; its revival will not consist in a putting back of the clock.

Tradition is laziness.