Quotes About Renewal

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Dawn is significant, magically speaking. It is a time of new beginnings.

The soreness lifted out of my muscles, and my cloudy, cloggy thought processes cleared as though someone had flushed my synapses with jalapeño.

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

Repentance restores your relationship with God.

The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.

Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.

Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

When you leave, you can leave a lot behind. Simple as that. And when you return the bad stuff has all disappeared in your absence because you were keeping it alive.

A creek is more powerful than despair.

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A manhã é uma esponja.

Some people around San Bernardino say that Arthwell Hayton suffered; others say that he did not suffer at all. Perhaps he did not, for time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time present, or future, out in the golden land where every day the world is born anew.

for time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time preset or future, out in the golden land where every day the world is born anew

It seems to me that life circles and circles, and hopefully leads to one's own center, where things become clear. Do you not think that we recycle behaviors that do not always bring us happiness?

Putting our earthly nature to death isn't something we can do apart from God. It isn't meant to be a renovation we attempt on our own or a charade we play at until it becomes reality. Believe me, I've tried it that way, and it just doesn't work. And yet, while the Holy Spirit wants to help us, we must initiate the act. For in a very real sense, only we can choose to die.

The almond blossom from the tree has gone, to be replaced by new green shoots. It smells of spring, and mown grass, and tilled earth from the fields beyond. Now is the month of Germinal in the Republican calendar: the month of hyacinth, and bees, and violet, and primrose. It is also the windy month; the month of new beginnings, and I have never felt it so strongly as I feel it now: that sense of possibility; that irresistible lightness.

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.