Quotes About Renewal

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

Time is a physician that heals every grief.

Dear God of new beginnings-here I am again .

Borac život iznova zapo?inje svakog trenutka, kako ga i okon?ava.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Dark night, bright future Like the phoenix from the ashes, I shall rise again

It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn't it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.

I'm back where I started, she marveled. But now everything's different.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

When the smith plunges the iron into the fire, he is not just trying to make it hot and glowing; he wants to make it malleable. So too, the only reason why mental prayer is to give light to my mind and warmth to my heart is to make my soul pliant so that it can be hammered into a new shape, so that the faults and form of the old man may be hammered out, and the form and virtues of Jesus Christ imparted to it.

Every morning I stand here and watch the sun gild the trees and the grottoes. It's like drawing a breath before the day begins in earnest.

There are no second acts. But I still believe there are, from time to time.

Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.

Dear Lord, I submit my body to You, the health of every cell, organ and tissue. I acknowledge You alone as my wonderful, divine Creator. Only You have the divine wisdom to bring my body back to health and wholeness. I place myself in Your hands, and I choose now to trust in Your unfailing love. I receive Your healing power. In Jesus' name, amen.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Whenever the long poles supporting their homes began to rot, they simply moved to a new location and built new homes.

A spirituality that can contribute to the renewal of the church will be solidly trinitarian, as opposed to a mystical monism in which diversity in God is sacrificed to simplicity. It will also be historically oriented-rooted in concrete human history and directed to the transformation of history into eternity.

The Queen of Heaven informed him: "Wonder not that until now you [St. Dominic] have obtained so little fruit by your labors; you have spent them on a barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of divine grace. When God willed to renew the face of the earth, he began by sending down on it the fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation. Therefore, preach my Psalter."1

God loves sleep. He made it.

Second, the entire world needs to be re-evangelized, including the vast majority of baptized Christians.

Your Heavenly Father has designed you so that approximately one-third of your life should be spent asleep. He himself rested after creating the heavens and the earth (see Gen 2:2-3).

I watch a white landscape that turns pale green, dark green, yellow and red, brown under bare branches, until snow falls again.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!