Quotes About Renewal

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ...

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away.

technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced. These two processes lead to a tremendous shattering of tradition which is the obverse of the contemporary crisis and renewal of mankind.

Look to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

The classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the destruction of World War II.

Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.

A big part of my life was spent getting the keys for or driving my car. My constant friend was the radio, and most of my conversations were not face-to-face but side by side in the front seat or through the rearview mirror of some jalopy that I would drive until it gave out and I had to buy a new one. I was like some kind of futuristic hermit crab being carried by my temporary husk from place to place rather than feeling the sun on my head or my feet on the ground.

Prayer is the key to each new day and the lock for every night.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.

Get some rest.

We recognize already that regeneration of the spirit is the paramount need of man.

Because it has been so united with the devil it is vital for man to receive from God a change of mind before he can receive a new heart.

Emotion must go through the cross (Matt. 10.38-39) in order to destroy its fiery nature, with its confusion, and to subject it totally to the spirit. The cross aims to accord the spirit authority to rule over every activity of emotion.

Todos los que están en Cristo llegan a ser nuevas criaturas muy pronto. Y esto no se logra por medio de mejoras graduales ni lentos avances. Todas las virtudes están en Cristo. Ellas no llegan a ser una realidad en la persona por medio del automejoramiento o el esfuerzo humano. Si estás en Cristo, ya posees todas estas virtudes.

is most vital that the Lord breaks us.

As we bring our will and thought to God His own will and thought begin to be reproduced in us, and then this becomes our will and thought. This kind of prayer is most valuable and full of weight. Let

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

You don't have to be attached to what you've been. What you've been is just the choices that you made once upon a time, and you always have the power to change your mind.

have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times? A good question to ask yourself as you work toward more spontaneity in your life.

When you update your view of the most important things in your life, the world around you is going to seem very different.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.