Quotes About Regeneration

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

But would she ever recover fully inside? How would she handle being alone in the house? Would she ever again be able to hear someone walking up the garden path without that twinge of fear and panic? He didn't know. The psyche regenerates itself, too, sometimes. We're often a damn sight more resilient than we'd imagine.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The wolf legends demanded immediate revenge. Groups of colonists entered the forest, killed the predators, and restored their mastery over nature in a day… the legends offered a quick solution: regeneration through violence

It is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue.

So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives

The basic function of law is to restrain (Rom. 13:1-4) not to regenerate, and when the function of the law is changed from the restraint of evil to the regeneration of man and society, then law itself begins to break down, because an impossible burden is being placed upon it...Only as we return to a Biblical foundation for law shall we again have a return to justice and order under law.

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

Wildfires can leave the land with burn scars that last for years.

One must never despair upon losing something, whether it's an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. (Letters on Life)

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell." —J. C. Ryle

but we've got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years, and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation.

Extensive studies have revealed that the triage nurses in our bodies recognize damaged cell parts and then repair them.' The body doesn't just patch these cells; it actually tears them down completely and then rebuilds from scratch. Incredible, isn't it? Damaged proteins become brand-new proteins, made with recycled amino acids. The body repairs altered fats and DNA in a similar matter. It is critical that you understand that the body has an amazing built-in ability to heal itself.

With destruction comes renovation.

Jesus did not die for man's sin against man, only for man's sin against God. God decides how we are to treat one another, and therefore when we sin against others we sin against God. David said, "in thy sight," knowing that God looks on. Nothing escapes His notice. One of the marks of regeneration is an awareness that God is watching.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

Needless to say, the Bible knows of no such grotesque creature as one who is saved but unrepentant.

7. Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands; and of good use both to themselves and others: yet, because they proceed not from an heart purified by faith; nor are done in a right manner,according to the Word; nor to a right end, the glory of God, they are therefore sinful, and cannot please God, or make a man meet to receive grace from God: and yet, their neglect of them is more sinful and displeasing unto God.

In planting trees, aim to perpetuate an ecosystem, not a plantation.

Fasting is by far the most effective method for purifying the blood, organs, and all bodily tissues, and in this age of pervasive pollution it is more important than ever in warding off premature degeneration of the body due to toxicity. In laboratory tests on rats and other animals, periodic fasting has proven to extend average life spans by up to 50 per cent.

If memory serves, it takes him quite a while to re-grow a head...

With or without us, the wild will return. .... It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance. The living world has survived mass extinctions several times before. But we humans cannot assume that we will do the same.

It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance.