Quotes About Renewal

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

In a half hour I could kick open a furnace door and fling into the flames all the snakes and squeaking bats that lived inside me. Except the next morning they would writhe with new life in the ashes and come back home, stinking and hungry.

I'm tired of sackcloth and

Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth new terrain.

a solitary middle-aged man in the August of life looking for a few more Aprils, an

It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine in your heart. Clarence

you're still breathing. Every day is a new world.

her heart grew tiny wings again.

Nor do I try to keep a garden, only An avocado in a glass of water -- Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later, When the small gilt leaves have grown Fleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes, And start another. I am earth's no less.

But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.

It can't rain all the time.

Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not die in the winter but quietly prepare for another season.

It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife! Iggy sang

Just as the snake sheds its skin over and over, we must shed our past.

Life goes on, doesn't it? Bud Rankin dies. A baby is born.

after a torrential rain. Acadia and her

I am convinced that the world doesn't break in the face of its worst possible deed. The world mends itself.

Something like this changes you, it breaks you into pieces and puts you back together, but the sum total is different.

The E.U. needs renewal, and we need a strong U.K. at the table to help to drive the reform agenda that can help the union regain competitiveness and growth.

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doesn't. If you ask forgiveness from Him, then it's gone forever. The past is never brought up to shame you or degrade you.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

Sometimes you just have to let go of the old and trust that something better is going to take its place, even if it's scary to face change and the unknown.

My idea of chilling is to detox, and after you complete a project, there's so much to unlearn and start afresh.