Quotes About Renewal

Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world.

The wind through the open windows had broomed out all the fetid feeling of absence and nothingness.

Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

As soon as Tea Cake went out pushing wind in front of him, he saw that the wind and water had given life to lots of things that folks think of as dead and given death to so much that had been living things. Water everywhere. Stray fish swimming in the yard. Three

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up.

This freedom is a funny thing,' he told them. 'It ain't something permanent like rocks and hills. It's like manna; you just got to keep on gathering it fresh every day. If you don't, one day you're going to find you ain't got none no more.

I'm trying to un-polish, like 'reset' myself. I'm trying to take myself back to when I first came in. That's what the fans miss and that's how they accepted me, so I kind of want to go back and give them that.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

The message from 'Analog Man' is that I'm back, and it won't be 20 years until the next album.

A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

Anytime you got time to rest, it always helps.

I felt Arsenal had let a lot of players go. When Thierry left I felt it was time for me to do something different and challenging.

All the world over we are very conscious of the trees in spring, and watch with delight how the network of twigs on the wych-elms is becoming spangled with tiny puce flowers, like little beetles caught in a spider's web, and how little lemon-colored buds are studding the thorn. While as to the long red-gold buds of the horse-chestnuts — they come bursting out with a sort of a visual bang. And now the beech is hatching its tiny perfectly-formed leaves

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

Maybe that's what the night is for, just so's we can know the difference when the light comes again.

As it happened, adiversion had presented itself: a new clerk, a small girl of flawless complexion, her straw-colored hair pulled back in a ponytail, with a face that renewed a man's faith in Possibility.

Eighty-five percent of spirituality is a good night's sleep.

At times when the strain is heaviest upon us, And our tired nerves cry out in many-tongued pain Because the flow of love is choked far below the deep recesses of the heart, We seek with cravings firm and hard The strength to break the dam That we may live again in love's warm stream. Until, at least, we are restored and made anew!

Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.

Emptiness does not mean nothingness but the availability of space that allows a building to be rebuilt, out of true emptiness arises wondrous existence