Renewal Quotes - Page 4

• We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, War, People

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• The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Keys, Discovery

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• Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.

  Jim Burns

  Christian, People, Revival

  Jim Burns (2002). “No Compromise”, p.12, Gospel Light Publications

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• The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Toxins, Elimination, Capacity

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• We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.

  Vaclav Havel

  Spiritual, Believe, Responsibility

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• I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.

  Feist

  Thinking, Details, Constant

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

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• When we think of our world today with all of its interconnectedness and complexities, the scope of gospel renewal includes systems and structures that are far beyond what we might consider day-to-day.

  David Kim

  Thinking, Our World, Might

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Pain, Grief

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• The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Loyalty, Understanding, Needs

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• Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.

  Thomas Merton

  Moving, New Beginnings, Worry

  Thomas Merton (2008). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.90, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Stronger, Identity, Expansion

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• For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

  John Calvin

  Fall, Grace, May

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 4 (Annotated Edition)”, p.382, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Paddling, Source, Canoeing

  "Pierre Elliott Trudeau" profile in "The Greatest Canadian" at CBC, October 29, 2004.

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• If you're a gardener, or creating a garden you're clearly looking to the future. You have a sense of your own future and a sense of yourself in that space. People coming here feel that hope, that renewal, and that sense of regeneration. They get their hands dirty and connect back to the ground, which is what we feel strongly about - giving everybody the opportunity to get connected to the earth.

  Amanda Marshall

  Dirty, Opportunity, Garden

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• The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Breathing, Intimate Relationships, Mind

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• Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Earth

  David Suzuki (2007). “The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Updated and Expanded”, p.63, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Adventure, Creative

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Animal, Errors

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• When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who, through their lifestyle, were challenging the patterns of materialism and militarism and it affected the Christianity of their age.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Challenges, Age

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Urban Renewal, Doctors

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• My involvement is an extension of who I am as a person. I have found a sense of renewal and peace when I allow myself to be open to create, give, and fully participate in things that call me to respond from my core.

  Grace Gealey

  Who I Am, Giving, Found

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.127, tredition

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• [Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.

  Viola Davis

  Perfect, Email, Vow

  Source: www.elle.com

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