Renewal Quotes

• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Always
  • Ability
  • Optimistic

• I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Spiritual

• We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Interest
  • Relation
  • Turkish

• For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Men
  • Children
  • Joy

• As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.

  

  Reuben Morgan
  • Worship
  • Encouraging
  • Awakened

• A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Familiar

• The festival was basically created eight months after September 11 and it was to give our neighborhood something to look forward to and to help the renewal, and to do that you need to laugh.

  

  Jane Rosenthal
  • Laugh
  • Neighborhood
  • Festival

• We are expecting the most ambitious renewal of parliamentary deputies in the history of independent Ukraine.

  

  Svyatoslav Vakarchuk Okean Elzy
  • Expecting
  • Renewal
  • Deputies

• One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Reflection
  • Release
  • Restoration

• Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Free
  • Words
  • Poetry

• [Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Perfect
  • Renewal
  • Vow

• Before the storm we were musical ambassadors of New Orleans, and now we've become cultural ambassadors for the faith of post-Katrina renewal.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • Musical
  • Before
  • Cultural

• Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Reflection
  • Gratitude
  • Cosmos

• My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Parents
  • Catholic
  • Praised

• The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

  

  George Washington
  • Friendship
  • Circumstances
  • Absence

• Success comes from a constant focus on renewal.

  

  Gary L. Tooker
  • Success
  • Constant
  • Renewal

• Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.

  

  Demetra George
  • Vision
  • Darkness
  • Teaches

• 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
  • World
  • Forever
  • Lying

• Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Grace
  • Dangerous
  • Purging

• I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive - but it needs to be given a renewal, a revival, and a muscularity which it presently lacks.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Alive
  • Conclusion
  • Revival

• I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Violence