Quotes About Renewal

This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.

Besides, my old opinions—at least, the greater part of them—are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But

Ninguém se pode banhar duas vezes no mesmo rio.

You can never step into the same river twice; for new waters are always flowing on to you.

This world… ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you.

It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

The sun is new every day. (Fragment 6)

Who will hide from the fire that does not set?

The only thing constant in life is change

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers. All is flux, nothing stays still.

The sun is new every day.

You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

The resurrection is the fundamental restoration of all culture.

All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.

Conversion is a turning back to God, but at the same time a coming to one's self.

The essence of the Christian religion consists in the reality that the creation of the Father, ruined by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God, and re-created by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a kingdom of God.

If there ever is to be a blessed humanity it must be preceded by a radical change in human nature.

Dies, all dies!The grass it dies, but in vernal rainUp it springs and it lives again;Over and over, again and againIt lives, it dies and it lives again.