Renewed Understanding Quotes

Change and renewal are themes in life, aren't they? We keep growing throughout life.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case, quite frankly, presumed familiarity has led to unfamiliarity, unfamiliarity has led to contempt, and contempt has led to profound ignorance.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.

We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life.

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith.

I've been through a heartbreak and seen the business side of the music industry. Now I see things clearer.

I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.