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Things are always better in the morning.
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renewal
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Harper Lee |
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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.
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suffering
inspirational
brokenness
renewal
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Vance Havner |
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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.
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seasons
death
renewal
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Daniel Abraham |
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Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion, have no time to return to us gradually, before sleep ceases. Then, from the black storm through which we seem to have passed (but we do not even say ), we emerge prostrate, without a thought, a that is void of content.
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renewal
self
void
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Marcel Proust |
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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renewal
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Oscar Wilde |
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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.
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revival
renewal
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Norman Maclean |
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It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
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renewal
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Bill Bryson |
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They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.
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earth
their-eyes-were-watching-god
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crack
renewal
sun
night
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Zora Neale Hurston |
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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.
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death
heartbreak
renewal
heartache
sun
hero
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Zora Neale Hurston |
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Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
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renewal
regeneration
narrative
story-telling
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Alister E. McGrath |
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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.
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renewal
regeneration
resilience
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.
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renewal
regeneration
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Geraldine Brooks |
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Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.
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legalism
renewal
regeneration
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Geraldine Brooks |
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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.
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renewal
regeneration
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Geraldine Brooks |