Quotes About Renewal

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos. G.K. CHESTERTON

Cuando ponemos en Cristo nuestra fe, le estamos permitiendo al que cambió la estructura molecular del agua para convertirla en vino que redefina lo que es posible, y lo que no.

Si quieres que Dios haga algo nuevo, no puedes seguir haciendo siempre lo mismo. Tienes que atreverte a ser diferente, lo que incluye escuchar de manera diferente. De eso se trata aprender estos siete lenguajes de Dios. ¡Que empiece la fiesta!

The root idea of Sabbath is simple as rain falling, basic as breathing. It's that all living things—and many nonliving things too— thrive only by an ample measure of stillness.

Now that Jesus has come and completed his work, he has made all things clean. The rules have changed. Evolved.

wait... promise me one more thing: if tomorrow you wake up feeling unoriginal or frail-hearted or faithless or tired of this world please pick up this book and start back at page one.

Don't go in fear of that which has been looked at again and again. Poets return to the MOON immemorially; it is deeply compelling and we probably won't ever get done with it. The challenge is to look at the familiar without the expected scaffolding of seeing, and the payoff is that such a gaze feels enormously rewarding; it wakes us up, when the old verities are dusted off, the tired approaches set aside.

What is healing, but a shift in perspective?

Reading is life's grand second chance.

Poetry -- literature in general -- is the major cultural source of vital options for those who find that their lives fall short of their highest hopes. Literature is, I believe, our best goad toward new beginnings, our best chance for what we might call secular rebirth... in literature there abide major hopes for human renovation.

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." —HENRY WARD BEECHER

But the goal is not to replace what cannot be replaced, or duplicate what cannot be duplicated, but simply to create opportunities for new memories. One

All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.

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Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and insight into ontological questions that might otherwise escape our notice within the default assumptions we make about reality.

For the evangelical witness in the United States to flourish, it doesn't need better branding, but genuine revival.

At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, God, faces and suffers some of the worst that a creature can endure and emerges with newfound power, strength, and hope. What is sacralized or made holy is not suffering but the facing and endurance of suffering with hope and life.

Sprouts then grow from the oak stumps and, over the years, mature into multiple trees sharing the same base and root system. These oaks are referred to as "coppice oaks" (Figure 10.6). Other trees can do this, but because oaks tend to be harvested the most, they are the most likely to reappear as coppice trees. Figure 10.6 Coppice oaks grown from the

Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Each time I begin writing a new book I feel as though I'm learning to write all over again.

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

Sometimes I wish I could put my whole life on pause...just make everything stop for a while so I can figure shit out.

learned to live totally in the present and die to the past. Realizing