Quotes About Renewal

from chapter 3, What Makes A Good Story?) Our willingness to hold dear the moments of past shalom prepares us to imagine a new and better day, and, even more to move toward that day with passion and purpose.

Repentance is an internal shift

We will never know Sabbath delight unless God delivers us from drowning in the noise and grime of our soiled days.

Don't spend...but mend yourself...

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Everyday I create myself...

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin

Every spiritual metamorphosis is preceded by a physical one.

The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it.

Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him

What followed the Black Death? We all know the answer. The Renaissance. Rebirth. It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach Paradise, man must pass through Inferno.

No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future.

think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.

A helpful rainsquall washed the papaya juice from my face and hands and chest; then the sun dried me, and the wind blow-dried my hair and beard.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

But, Dad…" She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that." Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

There must be that second, bobbing and darting in the aliveness of their shared history, unmistakable, glowing like a firefly in the darkness. If only they could pinpoint it and stop it there, right there, at the small but indelible spot that somehow they missed the first time around, if only, then perhaps their whole family could begin again.

Thus you see having committed a Crime once, is a sad Handle to the committing of it again; whereas all the Regret, and Reflections wear off when the Temptation renews it self; had I not yielded to see him again, the Corrupt desire in him had worn off, and 'tis very probable he had never fallen into it, with any Body else, as I really believe he had not done before.

Every time you said it, you really said it. It wasn't like a sequel where Hollywood just lines up the same actors and hopes it works again. It was like a remake with a new director and crew trying something else and starting from scratch.

Voy a tirar la caja entera de nuevo en tu vida, Ed, cada objeto tuyo y mío. Voy a tirarla en tu porche, Ed, aunque es a ti a quien estoy tirando.

Você não pode construir um novo edifício em uma área até destruir o que existia antes, e o antigo Charlie não pode ser destruído. Ele existe.

You can't put up a building on a site until you destroy the old one, and the old Charlie can't be destroyed.

The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs.

He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All