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Renewal Quotes
"For your full deliverance from your yesterday and your past, God gave you a new field of activity -your calling, so that you can start working according to His plan."
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"When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree."
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"I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: "Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?" This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life."
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"Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent."
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"See? Reading you all night has strengthened me. That's what God's love does. If you're beginning to feel uncomfortable now, it's because the changes in you are already beginning to happen and one day you'll be glad to say, Deliver me from meaninglessness."
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"And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things."
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"Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn't need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It's amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn't exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I've done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you."
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"You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever."
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"Re is a prefix, which when used in front of a word, changes its meaning to convey a fresh beginning, a do-over, a repeat, a shift in perspective, or an opportunity to create something new. When you add the prefix Re, you are activating the power of the word to head in a new direction to build momentum for positive change and transformation."
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"You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean."
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"You can start now and make a new great ending."
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"What I would be quite wise to remember is that 'pieces' are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be."
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"Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs-and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again."
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"Never despair if you have to start at the bottom, not even the sun rises from the top."
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"In my experience, most people are actually seeking recovery from the monotony and anxiety of qualitative repetition. This applies to body, emotions and mind. And that monotony and anxiety involves inertia just as much as over-use, meaning inertia in some areas and over-use in others."
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"You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing."
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"The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged."
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"Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan."
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"Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts."
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"Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I'm going to help you forgive the things that you won't let yourself forget."
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"But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ---And we, who always think of happinessrising, would feel the emotionthat almost baffles uswhen a happy thing falls."
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"Harsh winters precede pleasant springs."
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"Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships - the experiences of your emerging new self!"
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"I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over."
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"God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past."
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"When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks."
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"Every sunset is an opportunity to reset."
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"You cannot till this year's land using last year's sun."
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"Die every night so in the morning you are reborn."
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"What needs to be cleansed and refreshed in your life? What yucky stuff has created a stagnant and negative environment that muddies your waters and depletes your energy? Be willing to stir things up and make it messy for a short while so you may enjoy more clarity ad vibrancy for a long while."
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