Quotes About Renewal

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God's people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit.

Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.

The thing is, Stoke City pulled me out of a situation where I was not playing, where I was not happy, and that was in Germany. They have breathed new life into me.

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

When you work on a film, it's important to feel that you are starting afresh and doing it for the first time. Also, it's important to have those butterflies in your stomach; you need to wonder how you are going to approach the character and whether you will be able to do justice to the part.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

In September 2012, I got the blues pretty bad, so I stopped playing for a little while. I started to renew my playing by the time February of 2013 came around. I would go up and rehearse to different songs, play stuff like Count Basie records, jazz or rap.

There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.

After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

After a storm comes a calm.