Quotes About Renewal

I'm going to go home and walk my dog and hug my wife, and maybe get a good Mexican meal and a stiff margarita and a full night's sleep, ... And then I'm going to go right back to FEMA and continue to do all I can to help these victims.

Así se prueba a un hombre. Si es honesto, intelectualmente hablando, reexamina sus opiniones y comienza de nuevo.

Eventually he saw that he had been running to Christ, and the flight from the past had been one of the means used by God to propel him forward.

the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

In all your years of living," said Elijah, "has no one told you that it is possible to be restored to what one was created to be?

came at the impossible moment, and the world, which was powerful and sick unto death, burning and dying in its sins, was born again.

Was it not ordained that the Church must one day go through this second Passover?

preparing yourself means letting go of the past and embracing the imperatives of the new situation to give yourself a running start.

Dreams have long lives. They are not susceptible to logic; they are dreamed in defiance of reason. And they are immaterial; even as our bodies wither and fail, teaching us the truth of impermanence, our dreams persist, and renew themselves.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.

Redemption restores rather than obliterates creation.

Our Christian and human lives are united because redemption restores creation.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

teems of times and happy returns. The same anew'.

It feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive..

Faith, for Paul, is a death experience, a death that creates life.

By salvation I mean, not barely (according to the vulgar notion) deliverance from hell, or going to heaven, but a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity; a recovery of the divine nature; the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness, in justice, mercy, and truth.29

We have forgotten how to see anew, the way a child sees, everything brimming with the excitement of discovery. We have labeled and categorized everything, and we have lost the newness of seeing. Practice seeing your relatives, your family, your life partner, and your closest friends as totally new people every day. Put aside yesterday's images and concepts of who they are, and experience them anew, each day.

Altruism, generosity, solidarity and civic spirit are not like commodities that are depleted with use. They are more like muscles that develop and grow stronger with exercise. One of the defects of a market-driven society is that it lets these virtues languish. To renew our public life we need to exercise them more strenuously.

what that post-Holocaust life ought to be.23

There can be no light without darkness, no calm without the storm, no peace without war. Others will come, as they always have, and it will be up to us to drive them back into the shadows so that the covenant can be renewed once more.

The wound in one person can become the door through which everyone can find the center of life again.

In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the events of history are loosely stitched upon the endless loom of eternity. Secretly, we are each tied to the divine. Human awareness was thought to be the extra element in creation, able at times to help tip the scales toward renewal.