Top 100 Quotes About Renewal
#2. A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.
Pope Francis
#4. The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.
Ambrose
#5. Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.
Matt Chandler
#6. If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
Elliot Richardson
#7. On the one hand stand salvation by free grace for Christ's sake; but on the other stands renewal of the carnal heart by the Spirit. We must be changed as well as forgiven; we must be renewed as well as redeemed.
J.C. Ryle
#8. Running is just such a monestary
a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
George Sheehan
#9. The will to win ... the will to achieve ... goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
Vince Lombardi
#11. I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
Liam Neeson
#12. Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.
Liz Chase
#13. There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Martin Luther
#14. I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave - with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.
Karen White
#15. Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one's groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?
C.D. Payne
#16. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
Charles Horton Cooley
#17. Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.
James E. Faust
#18. We are all tied to the burdens of this existence, and it seems as if everyday renewal is occurring in our lives and those around us.
Kat Lahr
#19. The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.
Greg Anderson
#20. I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.
Feist
#21. When we gather, we are responding to a call to worship; that call is an echo and renewal of the call of creation to be God's image bearers for the world, and we fulfill the mission of being God's image bearers by undertaking the work of culture making.
James K.A. Smith
#22. Mediation on word of God leads to renewal of mind; rekindle of spirit and revival of soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. If there is going to be authentic renewal, it will have to happen in families and local church communities.
Rod Dreher
#24. 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
#25. What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#26. The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#27. If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice, .. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.
Alain Juppe
#28. Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
Burton Richter
#29. When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".
Dave Barry
#31. So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.
Timothy Keller
#32. As the cold wind blows and the leaves start to fall, I am reminded that there is no renewal without the passing away that punctuates all things in a human life.
Heidi Barr
#33. Heartbreak , death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well.
Laura Ward
#34. Renewal in your thinking leads you to a place of maturity where you consider how your thoughts influence you.
Suzanne Eller
#35. We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.
Asger Jorn
#37. Water Source and earthbound substance in endless theme and variation. There is need of rest, renewal and appreciation of the ever-changing landscape.
Lynne Hurd Bryant
#38. Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
R.D. Laing
#39. I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.
Heather Crews
#40. It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.
John Goodlad
#41. There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities that have been destroyed. There's a renewal that happens, but it's a very difficult one.
Ishmael Beah
#42. 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
#43. Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
Martin Buber
#44. Do I detect a renewal of your fighting spirit? I'm so glad. To tell the truth, I've been getting quite bored. Bring it on, Grace--I'm waiting for you.
B.A. Paris
#45. Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
Edward Hirsch
#46. The gospel is entirely a message about what someone else has done not only for me but also for the renewal of the whole creation.
Michael Horton
#47. As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.
Samuel R. Delany
#48. As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.
Anna Halprin
#49. At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry Adams
#50. When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
Bell Hooks
#51. Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
J. B. Jackson
#52. But here begins a new account, the account of a man's gradual renewal, the account of his gradual regeneration, his gradual transition from one world to another, his acquaintance with a new, hitherto completely unknown reality.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. I wash my skin with Re-Nutrive Intensive Hydrating Skin Cleanser, no toner, and follow with the range's Re-Nutrive Intensive Age-Renewal and Eye Creme.
Aerin Lauder
#54. It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it's really a time of renewal and reflection.
Elizabeth Camden
#55. Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
James E. Faust
#56. The porpoise has always been a sign of renewal and of the charged magical life.
Pat Conroy
#57. Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.
Neil Postman
#58. Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#59. Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another and build each other up. No longer will our lives seem ordinary and indistinguishable from the rest of the world.
Billy Graham
#60. May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul.
May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and
renewal to those Who work with you and to those who see
and receive your work. May your work never weary you.
John O'Donohue
#61. December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.
Alberto Villoldo
#62. sovereignty let loose through Jesus and the Spirit and aimed at the healing and renewal of all creation.
N. T. Wright
#63. Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
Lady Bird Johnson
#64. Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.
Jim Butcher
#65. I could not believe in the joyous morning bound. It was disbelief well-founded: thirty-five years between then and now, and while I rise punctually I do so grudgingly; each morning brings its own renewal of the battle....
Edwin O'Connor
#66. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal.
D.J. Niko
#67. I want to stand by the river in my finest dress. I want to sing, strong and hard, and stomp my feet with a hundred others so that the waters hum with our happiness. I want to dance for the renewal of the world.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#68. Days of Renewal A Journey Toward Freedom Jeremy White with Chris Lujan Valley Church Press
Jeremy Davis White
#69. I had preached again and again that one must never finish off the east for good, that a certain element of conflict must always remain, that a healthy Volk needs a war every twenty five years for the renewal of its blood.
Timur Vermes
#70. Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.
Louise J. Kaplan
#71. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card.
George Orwell
#72. A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.
Jurgen Moltmann
#73. Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
Charles Lindbergh
#74. Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.
Mike Yaconelli
#75. The renewal of the church in our time is dependent on the renewal of the gospel. And the renewal of the gospel requires the recovery of the centrality of Jesus for faith and thought. We must reJesus our theology as well as our churches.
Michael Frost
#76. If you have no story you have nothing to live up to, and every day is like a renewal
Brian E. Miller
#77. Beirut's "hopelessness relies upon its resilience. There are those who praise the courage of its people, their valour amid despair, but it is this very capacity for survival, for eternal renewal, that is Beirut's tragedy.
Steven Salaita
#78. Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
Sylvia Earle
#79. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,
Anonymous
#80. The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.
Pope John Paul II
#81. Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#82. One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians ... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.
Pauline Marois
#83. When I prayed I was new," wrote a great theologian of Christian antiquity, "but when I stopped praying I became old." Prayer is the way to renewal and spiritual life. Prayer is aliveness to God. Prayer is strength, refreshment, and joy.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Of America
#84. To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. We wish companionship and renewal of spirit, enrichment of thought and the full adventure of the mind; and we desire fair company, and a larger world in which to find them.
Woodrow Wilson
#86. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
#87. The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.
Steven F. Hayward
#89. Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth ... transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal
William Bridges
#90. The convictions we need to rally around should be about life giving, community transformation, holistic personal growth, sacrifice, beauty, blessing, and world renewal. Who wouldn't want to be a part of a people committed to something that brings personal meaning and makes the world a better place?
Hugh Halter
#91. There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.
Pope Francis
#92. The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.
John Calvin
#93. Some people thought spring was the time of renewal, but Sadie had always equated that feeling with autumn. It felt like a shedding of mistakes - falling leaves, crisp breezes. As if you could cast off an old skin to work on a new one.
Cerella Sechrist
#94. The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema
Randy Alcorn
#95. When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.
Paul Brunton
#96. Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
Pope Paul VI
#97. When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.
Robert Fulghum
#98. The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
#99. I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.
Martin Schulz
#100. Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks.
John Piper
