Quotes About Renewal

The trick is perhaps not to start a new life but to learn to reconsider the old one with less jaded and habituated eyes.

a reason to start over new, the reason is you.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

La muerte es la forma que tiene el universo de limpiar lo que ya ha cumplido con su propósito, para dejar vía libre al siguiente acto de propósito.

Tu pasado no tiene poder para perseguirte. Eres tú quien se persigue a sí mismo concentrándote en un pasado doloroso —le respondí.

But ... this will begin to make things right.

the main stimulus for the renewal of Christianity will come from the bottom and from the edge, from sectors of the Christian world that are on the margins."22

Apostolic ministry is not just about founding new churches and movements; it is as much about the renewal of existing organizations, that is, helping the church retain its primal movemental nature and stay vibrant. And so it has ongoing relevance for established churches as well.

Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God's eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.

I no longer wish to look at dead things.

We are heading for a radical revision where you could say we are heading towards the end of the world, but more in the R.E.M. sense than the revelation sense. That is what apocalypse means - revelation.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Thus, metaphysically, Kalki will destroy everything, even death. He will destroy all structures so that none exist. In other words, he will herald Pralaya.

Serpents are symbols of change and renewal. Like the earth they renew their fertility by replacing old skin with new. Since they could slither above and below the earth, they were considered keepers of the earth's secrets and hence symbols of occult lore.

Restraint is the key to regeneration and hence, also, sustainability.

God doesn't erase our past for us. Instead, he heals the one we've got.

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.

To transform home is to transform the world.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

Isn't it wonderful to serve the God of "it's never too late"?)

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.