Quotes About Renewal

Herbert's And now in age I bud again After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain and relish versing.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

We need what I call "Grace Time," a term that is more descriptive and positive than "down time"—to revive, to recover our energy, to daydream, and to putter. Without it, we endanger our energy supply and court disaster in our health.

Use something broken to make something whole.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.

Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.