100 Quotes About Renewal

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. Vance Havner

We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us. Daniel Abraham

As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed. Ovid

As you move through the seasons of change and make a deliberate decision to Review and Redo along the way, you can begin to see everything from a fresh perspective. This will generate new opportunities for making things better or creating something completely brand new. Susan C. Young

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. George Kubler

Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leavesawaken our sensesand power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our Father Skyembraces our happiness and laughter Praise be to freedom and life’s seasons Praise be to Christ’s freedom song Ramon Ravenswood

The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our vital life force. A person is likewise composed of contradictory and complementary forces of pain and pleasure, darkness and lightness, and clashing and harmonizing bands of thoughts and feelings. The web and root of all persons consists of both the expressible and the unsayable. Who has not held imaginary conversations with gods, devils, and spirits? Persons whom enthusiastically cultivate an inner life, ardently experience the quick of nature, and willingly immerse themselves in all aspects of everyday living will experience renewal. Analogous to the heat source of fire, we need the spark of desire to fuel our hearts and the spirit of the breeze to spread our heart songs. Kilroy J. Oldster

A storm-filled life replete with piercing and unearthly sounds ravages the soul of any thoughtful person. In contrast, the genteel wind of restoration moves silently, invisibly. Renewal is a spiritual process, the communal melody that sustains us. Inexpressible braids of tenderness whispering reciprocating chords of love for family, friends, humankind, and nature plaits interweaved layers of blissful atmosphere, which copious heart song brings spiritual rejuvenation. For when we love in a charitable and bountiful manner without reservation, liberated from petty jealously, and free of the toxic blot of discrimination, we become the ineluctable wind that vivifies the lives of other people. The mellifluous changes in heaven, earth, and our journey through the travails of time, while worshiping the trove of fathomless joys of life, constitute the seeds of universal poetry. Kilroy J. Oldster

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy. Unknown

Mediation on the Scriptures will renew your mind. Lailah Gifty Akita

If we connect with nature, we can reconstruct our soul, spirit and strength. Lailah Gifty Akita

Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage. Shannon L. Alder

Seek renewal of mind. Lailah Gifty Akita

If anyone has made you feel invisible or less-than, write a new narrative on your heart. Jen Hatmaker

May our conscience be renewed by the WORD of GOD. Lailah Gifty Akita

The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others. Nancy Pearcey

Without renewal of mind, there is no transformation. Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading renew the mind. Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest remedy in the world is change; and change implies the passing from the old to the new. It is also the only path that leads from the lesser to the greater, from the dream to the reality, from the wish to the heart’s desire fulfilled. It is change that brings us everything we want. It is the opposite of change that holds us back from that which we want. But change is not always external. Real change, or rather the cause of all change, is always internal. It is the change in the within that first produces the change in the without. To go from place to place is not a change unless it produces a change of mind–a renewal of mind. It is the change of mind that is the change desired. It is the renewal of mind that produces better health, more happiness, greater power, the increase of life, and the consequent increase of all that is good in life. And the constant renewal of mind–the daily change of mind–is possible regardless of times, circumstances or places. He who can change his mind every day and think the new about everything every day, will always be well; he will always have happiness; he will always be free; his life will always be interesting; he will constantly move forward into the larger, the richer and the better; and whatever is needed for his welfare today, of that he shall surely have abundance. Christian D. Larson

May you find renewed energy, courage and hope to pursue new adventures. Lailah Gifty Akita

He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.. He opened his eyes a moment and they were dark with fear, for only one race was run as yet and there might be many others.. Then his newborn courage came back to him and he accepted his suffering as the price he must pay for the gift of creation that was his. And suffering, he had discovered, could be the gateway to renewal, than which no more glorious experience can be man's on earth. . Elizabeth Goudge

We can only recreate ourselves with renewal of our mind. Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to renew your mind with positive thoughts daily. Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to change the world, you must first change yourself. In order to have the right to see what is wrong with the world, you must first earn that right through seeing what is wrong with yourself. We do not become influencers, leaders and teachers, through pulling on our better attributes and applying those better attributes to a broken world like a healing balm; rather, we become influencers, leaders and teachers in this world, by performing within ourselves the purging that we wish to see take place in others. C. Joybell C.

Rest leads to renewal of spirit, soul and strength. Lailah Gifty Akita

May you have a fresh strength in the spring season. Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita

There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal. Angelica Hopes

In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power. . Tara Brach

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths. Clarice Lispector

Every new morning brings new freshness and new renewal. Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today. Tim Fargo

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease. J.r.r. Tolkien

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory — not getting stuff done. Leland Ryken

God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change. Diane Dettmann

The life you live will be enrich with every journey you made. Lailah Gifty Akita

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us. Michael Meade

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light. Jennifer DeLucy

And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you. Nikki Rowe

Focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away. Nikki Rowe

Every fresh morning brings freshness of sacred-being. Lailah Gifty Akita

Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks. Tim Fargo

Only God can make the common sacred. Beth Moore

Oh my darling petaled one, dream once again of the brightened sun. Lift your arms up light and high, reach with all you are for the sky. For the dream of your life is not over yet. It will not end 'till this sun has set. Breathe and sway in the breeze, darling one. Life fill your veins with the light of the sun. Mina Marial Nicoli

Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -- by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth. John Welwood

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord. Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim: Know and be still. Inside the Double Worldall voices becomeeternally mild. Rainer Maria Rilke

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with a new culture, and different web of relationships, then they will absorb new habits of thought and behavior in ways you will never be able to measure or understand. And if you do surround that person with a new, enriching culture, then you had better keep surrounding them with it, because if they slip back into a different culture, and most of the gains will fade away. David Brooks

However much they may smile at her, the old inhabitants would miss Tillie. Her stories give them something to talk about and to conjecture about, cut off as they are from the restless currents of the world. The many naked little sandbars which lie between Venice and the mainland, in the seemingly stagnant water of the lagoons, are made habitable and wholesome only because, every night, a foot and a half of tide creeps in from the sea and winds its fresh brine up through all that network of shining waterways. So, into all the little settlements of quiet people, tidings of what their boys and girls are doing in the world bring real refreshment; bring to the old, memories, and to the young, dreams. . Willa Cather

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening. Zora Neale Hurston

I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration. Jay Woodman

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God. Philip Zaleski

How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been. Beth Moore

Things are always better in the morning. Harper Lee

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago. Steven Hall

As I leave the garden I take with me a renewed view, And a quiet soul. Unknown

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before. Bill Bryson

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always. Willa Cather

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling Deborah Day

Relax, refresh and refocus. Lailah Gifty Akita

Never judge yourself so harshly that you never arise from the ashes of life. Shawntel Jefferson

Rain storms are destructive and renewing, I want to turn my bad days into rain storms. Anastasia Bolinder

We are all tied to the burdens of this existence, and it seems as if everyday renewal is occurring in our lives and those around us. Kat Lahr

As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew. Phil Wohl

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. Zora Neale Hurston

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven, " and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father, " grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself. Mark Sayers

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it exists to make us feel things, to make the stone stony. The end of art is to give a sensation of the object seen, not as recognized. The technique of art is to make things 'unfamiliar, ' to make forms obscure, so as to increase the difficulty and the duration of perception. The act of perception in art is an end in itself and must be prolonged. In art, it is our experience of the process of construction that counts, not the finished product. . Victor Shklovsky

The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush. J.D. Greear

After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything. Jen Pollock Michel

I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally. Jen Pollock Michel

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way. Alister E. McGrath

As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation. David Platt

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state. Geraldine Brooks

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow.... Jars Of Clay

Let your soul be washed by the waves of love to feel the joy of life. Debasish Mridha

When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life–they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat–however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. . Boris Pasternak

Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation. Eugene H. Peterson

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table. C.s. Lewis

George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church. Davis Miller

An old Celtic proverb boldly places death right at the center of life. ‘Death is the middle of a long life, ’ they used to say. Ancient people did things like that; they put death at the center instead of casting it out of sight and leaving such an important subject until the last possible moment. Of course, they lived close to nature and couldn’t help but see how the forest grew from fallen trees and how death seemed to replenish life from fallen members. Only the unwise and the overly fearful think that death is the blind enemy of life. Michael Meade

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again. So what I saw because of what I knew was a kind of death with the marvellous promise of less than a three-day resurrection. . Norman Maclean

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams Paul C. Nagel

No art like the art displayed in our salvation, no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church, and will be the theme of admiration in eternity. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Harmony would only come with destruction. Shannon A. Thompson

In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death. Kara Cooney