Quotes About Renewal

But you can't start over, Only a baby can start over. You and me, Why, we're all that's been.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

We'll start over. But you can't start. Only a baby can start

And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world in never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.

Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.

Bring new eyes to a world even new lenses and presto, new world.

Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Maybe you'll come to know that every man in every generation is refired.

THAT YEAR THE RAINS HAD COME so gently that the Salinas River did not overflow. A slender stream twisted back and forth in its broad bed of gray sand, and the water was not milky with silt but clear and pleasant. The willows that grow in the river bed were well leafed, and the wild blackberry vines were thrusting their spiky new shoots along the ground.

To hell with that rotten century! Let's get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let's close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life. A man will have clean hands once we get the lid slammed shut on that stinking century. It's a fair thing ahead. There's no rot on this clean new hundred years. It's not stacked, and any bastard who deals seconds from this new deck of years— why, we'll crucify him head down over a privy.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. "Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start.

We shed skins in life, to keep living.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell's dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall.

To become less and transmit more, to replenish energy with wisdom - some such hope, at this more than midpoint in my life, is the reason why I write.

We see each moment as a new beginning, a new opportunity to start over, to tune in, to reconnect.

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

Repentance restores your relationship with God.

What if we lived like Jesus really did rise from the dead?

Repentance of spirit, resurrection of soul.