Quotes About Renewal

To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes...

And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.

Wherever there were glaciers, the world was in a constant state of creation.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

May we all receive blessing upon blessing. And may we realize our power to bless, heal, and renew one another.

Only the blindness of habit convinces us that we continue to live in the same place, that we see the same landscape. In truth, no place ever remains the same because light has no mind for repetition; it adores difference. Through its illuminations, it strives to suggest the silent depths that hide in the dark. Light

In the light and reverence of blessing, a person or situation becomes illuminated in a completely new way. In a dead wall a new window opens, in dense darkness a path starts to glimmer, and into a broken heart healing falls like morning dew. It

There is a period between each night and day when one dies for a few hours, neither dreaming nor thinking nor tossing nor hating nor loving, but dying for a little while because life progresses in just such a way.

The Mortification Of Sin In Particular Described

First, it is clear that Christ died to procure for us an actual reconciliation with God, and not only a power for us to be reconciled unto him; for 'when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,' Rom. v. 10.

2.) Mortification prunes all the graces of God, and makes room for them in our hearts to grow.

The Spirit of God createth a new nature in us, which is the principle and next cause of all acts of the life of God.

If you bomb a city, then rebuild it, the data shows a huge spike in economic activity.

Every advance in our acuteness of perception will show us something thing new; but the old and first-discerned thing will still be there, not falsified, only modified and enriched by the new perceptions, becoming continually more beautiful in its harmony with them, and more approved as a part of the infinite truth.

He'd never gotten back to religion, but he had gotten back some faith.

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I entered a new life and found her again, in a woman who was entirely her own person. When this life is done, I'll turn away from it without regret as well, because I know she waits for me, in another, different life.

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.