Renewal Quotes

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

Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians, a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Who cares what the Bible means to me? We need to know what it means. That's where I have to allow God to redefine my thinking. He tells us in Romans 12:2 not to be conformed to this world but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. What always gets me about this verse is he's telling believers we still need to be transformed. It means I have a saved spirit but I still think with a lost brain, and slowly but surely my mind has to be transformed. Such transformation comes but one way - by truth. By his Word.

~ Mark Hall

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 gardenI take with me a renewed view,And a quiet soul.

~ Jessica Coupé

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