Quotes About Renewal

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

God sees only the righteousness of Jesus when He looks at me because all my shame, pain, and blame were taken by Jesus, and I was given His goodness in exchange.

All Christians have their sins forgiven, but in most cases they are not experiencing revival.

Lesson learned? Essential lesson learned! You can erase what you draw, even what you've spent a long time drawing and sweating over it. You can throw away what you paint and, as I learned to do later, cut it up and incorporate it into a new painting. A lesson to take straight to heart, and not only in art making.

Forget the past.

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

O velho reapareceu, cinco minutos depois, já recuperado.

Praise the Lord, O my soul; in my inmost being, I praise Your holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul! We do not forget all Your benefits. For You are the One who forgives all our sins and heals all our diseases, who redeems our lives from the pit and crowns us with love and compassion, who satisfies our desires with good things so that our youth is renewed like the eagle's! . .

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

You do not really give to another—you resurrect that which is asleep within him. "The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." Death is merely a sleeping and a forgetting. Age and decay are the sleep—not death—of youth and health. Recognition of a state vibrates or awakens it.

This very day start your new life. Approach every experience in a new frame of mind — with a new state of consciousness. Assume the noblest and the best for yourself in every respect and continue therein.

Claim yourself to be your ideal, not as something that you will be in time, but as that which you are in the immediate present. Do this, and your present world of limitations will disintegrate as your new claim rises like the phoenix from its ashes.

There must be someone in this room who will so completely transform himself in this world that his close immediate circle of friends will not recognize him.

Just as the moth in his desire to know the flame was willing to destroy himself, so must you in becoming a new person be willing to die to your present self.

I've been Born Again.

As for Mr. Ogden, he would have broken out immediately into a long discourse in which the words "uplift," "renooal," and "spiritual regeneration" would have sounded again and again, for Mr. Ogden was so like an American as to be quite fabulous.

Tratemos de ser felices, recomiendo yo, chupando la miserable costilla humana. Extraigamos de ella el líquido renovador, Cada cual de acuerdo con sus inclinaciones personales. ¡Aferrémonos a esta piltrafa divina!

You never step into the same river twice,

Frieda felt that her heart was like some old chest that had been heaved up from the seabed, its barnacled lid prized open after all this time. Who knew what treasures she would find inside?

Winter always turns into Spring

It was a new beginning for France.

once the land was flooded with salt water, it would take a long time to reclaim

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Wayfaring becomes "an ongoing process of growth and development, or self-renewal." Transport, on the other hand, is "essentially destination-oriented.