Quotes About Renewal

Vorremmo che tutto potesse ripetersi, potesse tornare ad essere precisamente come era disse Karin. Ma invecchiare significa anche imparare a difendersi dal sentimentalismo. L'amicizia deve essere messa alla prova e rinnovarsi. Forse i vecchi amori non cambiano mai. Ma l'amicizia sì.

Something that makes it possible for me to start thinking about the future again.

Praying demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

I have also learned to catch the darkness early, not to allow sadness to grow into depression or let a sense of being rejected develop into a feeling of abandonment. Even in the renewed and deepened friendship, I feel the freedom to point to the little clouds and ask for help in letting them pass by.

Joy never denies the sadness, but transforms it to a fertile soil for more joy.

Thus, our brokenness can become a gateway to new life.

Te aseguro que, si uno no nace de nuevo, no puede ver el reinado de Dios», dijo Jesús a sus discípulos (Jn 3,3).

Dare to lose your life and you will find it.

Prayer opens our eyes for ourselves and through clarification enables us to step forward in the direction of hope.

There are many times when I cannot pray, when I am too tired to read the gospels, too restless to have spiritual thoughts, too depressed to find words for God, or too exhausted to do anything. But I can still look at these images so intimately connected with the experience of love.

Our occupations and preoccupations fill our external and internal lives to the brim. They prevent the Spirit of God from breathing freely in us and thus renewing our lives.

This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you can always begin afresh. Whenever you willingly choose this poverty you make yourself vulnerable, but you also become free to see the world and to let the world show itself in its true form. You have no need to defend yourself. You can proclaim loudly what you know through your intimate contact with God, who is the source of all life.

Our cup is often so full of pain that joy seems completely unreachable. When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Renew thyself completely each day.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.

Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.

Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world.

They say that characters were engraven on the bathtub of king Tching-thang to this effect: 'renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.' I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages.

With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...