Quotes about Renewal

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.

The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes.

I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.

Change is the law of life.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Sometimes God gives us safe places to retreat so we can come back healed.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.