Quotes about Newness

It is only a poem, and we might say rightly that singing a song does not change reality. However, we must not say that with too much conviction. The evocation of an alternative reality consists at least in part in the battle for language and the legitimization of a new rhetoric. The language of the empire is surely the language of managed reality, of production and schedule and market. But that language will never permit or cause freedom because there is no newness in it. Doxology

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.